Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roof-minutes after 25 youngsters had left. The same heavy snow leveled a horse barn in Windham, Me., but four horses trapped under the snow and twisted metal were dug out alive. Sturdy North Dakotans of Scandinavian descent, long since inured to cold, broke out booster buttons proclaiming: MINUS 40 BELOW KEEPS THE RIFFRAFF OUT. When West Virginia's Governor Jay Rockefeller insisted on being inaugurated outdoors in Charleston's 0° weather, local wags quipped, "We always figured it would be a cold day in hell when a New Yorker would become Governor here." The situation...
...objections focus on the book's two ne'er-do-wells, the Fox and the Cat, shiftless schemers posing as mendicants who are lame (the Fox) and blind (the Cat), while merrily fleecing the gullible young puppet. By the end of the tale, the Cat is truly sightless and minus a paw, while the Fox does not fare too well either?he ends up thin, almost hairless and without a tail...
...minus side, Flextime makes it tougher for supervisors to coordinate the work of employees who start at different times. It also increases utility bills of employers who have to keep offices open longer. But managers and workers agree that the freedom gained is well worth the problems. Says Ellen Dye: "It has changed my whole attitude toward work. People feel trusted...
...Terry Sanford to head a combined State and Defense Department; Boston's Mayor Kevin White to oversee the Justice Department and the IRS; former Interior Secretary Walter Hickel, a Republican, to direct the Interior and Agriculture departments; Howard Stein, president of the Dreyfus Fund, to tackle the Treasury (minus, of course, the IRS); and Sam Shoen, president of the U-Haul company, to manage Commerce, Labor and Transportation. McCarthy said he would keep Housing and Urban Development Secretary Carla Hills and Transportation Secretary William Coleman in his Administration. For good measure, McCarthy said, he would name Harvard Sociologist David...
...first half statistics would have been better left unkept, as they revealed the futility of attempting to play football on a day reserved for ducks. Jim Kubacki had total offensive statistics of 37 yards, minus six rushing, which just about sums...