Word: ran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson runner Brian McAndrews ran a tight race with Terrier Ray Ridley but Ridley hung...
...budget's inflationary impact and would have preferred a smaller deficit than the $61 billion now estimated. Liberals, on the other hand, feel betrayed by Carter's refusal to allocate greater resources to fighting joblessness and urban ills and for public health. They note that Carter, who ran on a platform of reducing defense outlays, submitted a military budget calling for a 3% increase in spending, discounted for inflation, to $117.8 billion. Liberals are vowing to get a larger share of the pie for social welfare programs this year, while conservatives are equally determined to maintain the nation...
...Administration ran into another bit of trouble in Congress last week when the Senate Banking Committee unexpectedly delayed confirmation of G. William Miller, chief of Textron Inc., to succeed Arthur Burns as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. The reason: to give the committee time to investigate an assertion by Chairman William Proxmire that a Textron subsidiary, Bell Helicopter, made a $2.9 million payment to an Iranian sales agency, Air Taxi, that was secretly owned by General Mohammed Khatemi, the Shah's brother-in-law and commander of the Iranian air force (he died in 1975). Miller denies that...
...that of the 19th century romantics - was to open new channels for the creative mind. It produced, above all, an art of subject matter - a trait transmitted to its American offspring, abstract expressionism. "Beauty will be erotic-veiled, explosive-fixed, magic-circumstantial, or it will not be at all," ran Breton's famous description of the surrealist ideal. Much of the power of surrealist rhetoric does not survive translation: its use of blasphemy, for instance, and its passionate anticlericalism were authentically shocking within France's Catholic tradition, but resemble a charade when plucked from that context...
DIED. Alton Carter, 89, President Carter's uncle and the oldest member of the Carter family; of gall bladder disease; in Americus, Ga. The mayor of Plains from 1924 to 1952, "Uncle Buddy" also ran a general store and for the past few years worked in his son's antiques store, where he was a popular raconteur...