Word: pound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Citing the need for dogs in research, several Medical School professors last week testified before the state legislature in an attempt to stop the repeal of the state's controversial dog pound seizure law, which allows laboratories to requisition about 2500 dogs from pounds each year...
...biggest threat to American business is not Japan. It is pennywise, pound-foolish executives like William Agee who squander money on wasteful corporate mergers. For him to be skewered by his own ambition is poetic justice...
...antitank weapon. Ten years ago, the Army decided to provide infantrymen with cheap, light antitank bazookas. The Vipers were projected to cost about $75 apiece, but design changes began almost as soon as the weapon was proposed. The weight, it was decided, must be reduced to less than seven pounds This meant the warhead had to weigh less than a pound, which sharply limited its potential destructive power. The size of the rocket motor was also reduced to cut blast noise. By the time the contractor finished redesigning it, the Vipers cost not $75, but $787 apiece. Worse...
...vandalism. American Indian Law Students Association Arab Student Society Black Law Students Association Christian Fellowship Committee on Gay and Lesbian Legal Issues Computer-aided Legal Instruction Project Defenders Forum Guild Jewish Law Students Association Journal of Law and Public Policy La Alianza Law School Council Legal Services Project Roscoe Pound Society Society for Law and Public Policy Students for Public Interest Law Third World Coalition
...generation of the franc, the pound, the lire and the dollar...