Word: rae
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case grew out of Mrs. Gandhi's campaign four years ago for her parliamentary seat in Rae Bareli, her home district, in the poverty-stricken state of Uttar Pradesh, 300 miles southeast of New Delhi. She won a landslide victory -183,000 votes to 71,000 for her opponent, socialist Raj Narain. Barely a month after the election, Narain, 58, an old and bitter foe of Mrs. Gandhi and her late father, Jawaharlal Nehru, went to court and charged that Mrs. Gandhi and her staff, in violation of India's equivalent of the U.S.'s Hatch...
...Skinner. Margaret Mead. Linus Pauling. Isaac Asimov. Paul Ehrlich. James Watson. What do these people have in common? All are scientists, and their names are more or less household words. They are also included in a group of some 40 scientists* studied by Dr. Rae Goodell, a postdoctoral fellow at M.I.T., for her doctoral thesis at Stanford University's department of communication. She picked them because they have an ability that is rare in the scientific community: to communicate effectively with the public and make headlines...
...started to find out how I would act if I were not Betty Gra-ble." With a vision of herself as a composite Grable, Deanna Durbin and June Haver she wandered through an almost schizoid array of jobs-and names-on her way to wising up. She was Edna Rae Gillooly-the daughter of middle-class Irish parents, "with dashes of French, Dutch and American Indian"-until she left Detroit's Cass Technical High School; Edna Rae as a fashion illustrator's model in Texas; Keri Flynn as a dancer in a Montreal night club; Erica Dean...
...detailed in its 164 pages, S. 2767 would establish the Government National Railway Association, which would have 420 days to determine how much of the 30,000 miles of track should be retained before submitting a plan to Congress for final approval and funding. GNRA, or "Ginnie Rae," as railroad men are calling it, would issue billions in federally guaranteed bonds to satisfy creditors of the bankrupt lines (there is no precise limit). In addition, a new Railroad Equipment Authority would guarantee $2 billion of loans to finance the purchase of new rolling stock. Then Ginnie Rae would turn over...
...dead king's son, Orestes, goaded to revenge by his sister Electra, proceeds to murder his mother and Aegisthus. Rabe has drastically minimized Electra's role, but he provides two Clytemnestras, possibly to differentiate the mother's grief from the lust and vengefulness of the mistress (Rae Allen...