Word: perm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bought Pitt a winning record for the first time in ten years. Despite a 14-10 loss to heavily favored Notre Dame two weeks ago, this year's Panthers have run up a 7-3 record. This week Majors has them poised to pounce on their archrival Perm State, a team they have not beaten since...
Some Congressmen think so. In the Department of Transportation, the feeling is that even if the CAB authorizes a subsidy, Congress will not fund it because it is tired of being asked to bail out private companies in the manner of Perm Central, Lockheed and Grumman. Wisconsin's influential Democratic Senator William Proxmire, a longtime foe of subsidies to business, is adamant against any aid to Pan Am beyond possible increases in fares. He bristles at the thought of turning Pan Am into "the nation's largest welfare recipient...
...Widely acclaimed for his poems, which were distinguished by compressed emotion expressed in courtly rhetoric, Ransom was also an influential teacher. As an instructor at Vanderbilt University in the 1920s, the Tennessee-born Rhodes scholar shepherded the Fugitives, a flock of young Southern poets (including Allen Tate and Robert Perm Warren) who celebrated the virtues of Southern agrarianism in defiance of the machine age. In 1937 Ransom moved to Kenyon College, where he attracted such poets as Randall Jarrell and Robert Lowell, and fathered the New Criticism, which stressed rigorous textual analysis rather than the study of an author...
...most of his 14 years with the CIA, Marchetti was a bright young agent on the way up. After serving with U.S. Army intelligence in West Germany during the early '50s, he returned to Perm State to major in Soviet studies. Because of his background, he was recruited for the CIA. He spent a year in training in covert operations, then became an intelligence analyst, concentrating largely on Soviet military matters...
...Elkhart, Ind., Elden W. Perm, 42, a onetime car salesman, expects that his company, Perm Associates, will produce half of this year's bumper crop. The tie-in between the path of righteousness and the macadam turnpike comes through most clearly in one of Perm's latest offerings: I'M HEADED FOR THE PROMISED LAND, SEE YOU THERE -J.C. Or as the Old Testament counsels (Jeremiah 31: 21): "Set thee up way-marks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway...