Word: move
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Weldon Mathis, the union's acting president while Presser is hospitalized with brain cancer, called the suit "a shameful attempt to destroy a democratic union." Several public officials also criticized the potentially dangerous precedent. Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah said a move by the Government to take over a union "smacks of totalitarianism." Senator Paul Simon of Illinois, a Democrat, was also wary. "I think we're getting on very, very thin ice here," he said...
...keenly interested in attracting andadmitting candidates who not only give ample proofof academic prowess, but also show evidence ofsuch personal qualities as honesty, fairness,compassion, altruism, leadership, and initiativein their high school years," reads the pamphlet'stext. "We place great value in a candidate'scapacity to move beyond the limits of personalachievement to involvement in the life of thecommunity at large...
...think that there are major changes in whatsociety expects from the medical profession," Rowesaid in explaining his move. "There are new issuesof biotechnology, there are tensions betweenconducting high-tech work, such as transplants anddealing with the local community...
Vera and Torre attempt to secure Lopito's release, but they realize only too late that they are helpless in the government's insidious tangle of lies and deception. Although he is too weak to move, the police force Lopito to push a heavy cement roller across a basketball court, but he collapses and dies. Torre witnesses the entire scene, but even though she calls in her cousin, who is Freddy Fox, she and Vera are too late. Even Fox is powerless in the face of the cackling doctor, who signs Lopito's death certificate saying he died...
...four of the companies that women launch begin as home-based enterprises. Kurtzig set up ASK in 1972 as a part-time business in a spare bedroom in her apartment but soon had to move to larger office quarters. Katz founded her company at home while she was pregnant with the first of her two children. Said she: "We needed the money...