Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence was fragmentary and scattered and painfully hard to gather, but slowly it accumulated-a red Volkswagen camper, a fingerprint discovered at a farmhouse in Pennsylvania, a post office box in San Francisco. Suddenly last week the bits fitted into a pattern. When they did, an FBI agent and a policeman climbed stealthily up the backstairs to the top-floor apartment of the modest house on the edge of San Francisco. They knocked, and the door swung open. Standing in the room was the thin, pale young woman. "Don't shoot," said Patty Hearst. "I'll go with...
Deprived of such shelter, Patty and the Harrises next occupied an isolated farmhouse in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, near the hamlet of South Canaan. They did so, the FBI believes, with the aid of Jack Scott, former athletics director at Ohio's Oberlin College, who with his wife Micki has refused to answer FBI questions or appear before a federal grand jury investigating the movements of Patty and the Harrises...
...seems to know what's going on in regard to Pennsylvania's football team. Information about the team that crumbled in the second half of last year's campaign has been non-existent. The facts alone, such as the graduation of Adolph "Beep-beep" Bellizeare and a number of other Quaker standouts, would seem to make the Philadelphians a losing bet in this year's race...
...Chicago, 27,000 teachers shut down all 666 schools two weeks ago in a dispute over the city's plan to hold its school budget at $1.16 billion by eliminating 1,525 teacher jobs. Other strikes -notably in Pennsylvania, California and Rhode Island-centered on similar worries about job security in a time of budget austerity. While busing is the big issue in Boston schools this year, the city is also rolling toward a Sept. 22 strike deadline set by the teachers, who want a 10% salary increase and job-security guarantees...
Both Nationwide and Sentry first offered the policies in Pennsylvania, where early this year a regulation went into effect, requiring that auto-insurance policies must rate at least 40 on the Flesch Readability Scale. That scale, which ranges from 0 to 100 for the maximum possible brevity and simplicity, was devised in 1943 by Language Expert Rudolf Flesch (The Art of Readable Writing). But not until "we entered the age of consumerism," says Flesch, did business realize that "to have documents written by lawyers isn't good enough. because the consumer isn't satisfied...