Word: ran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finally aroused the attention of the law. Charges of bribery became so rampant in the last election that a federal grand jury is now investigating. This week local residents are giving testimony concerning charges that votes were bought to elect Democrat Congressman Claude ("Buddy") Leach, 44. While Leach ran a tight race with his Republican opponent, Jimmy Wilson, 47, in most of the Fourth Congressional District, he piled up pluralities as high as 13 to 1 in Vernon Parish, enabling him to edge to victory by 266 votes out of 130,900 cast. Pledging to file fraud charges with both...
...hearing divorce cases last April when she stepped down to get some papers. Unfortunately, the step did not extend all the way around the raised platform and she walked off into midair. She had to undergo surgery for a fractured elbow, remained in the hospital for two weeks, ran up $4,800 in medical bills and missed work for eight weeks...
...turnabouts occurred because 1978 was the year when the U.S. ran out of excuses for bad economic policy and performance. The collapse of the dollar drove home the truth that the nation is suffering from shockingly lower investment and productivity than its industrial rivals. (American output per hour worked rose a mere .3% in the twelve months ending last September, a record that one high Administration official calls "an utter disaster.") The trade deficit that looked freakishly large at $26.5 billion in 1977 grew even bigger, and this time it could not be wholly blamed on oil imports -which actually...
...from the 1973-75 average of 7.6%. This may be due in part to a feeling that people need not worry about their old age because Medicare, Social Security and private pensions will take care of them, but the attitude represents a basic change in consumer psychology. When inflation ran high in past years, consumers reduced their borrowing and increased their savings out of fear of bad times ahead. This helped fight inflation by braking an economy that needed slowing...
Hours after the burial of Jeffrey Hunter, 16, four of his classmates at Ridgewood High School sat talking about the death. Why had Hunter hanged himself? Suddenly, Christopher Mathieson, also 16, rose, said he had something to do and sped home on his moped. Sensing trouble, the other students ran to Mathieson's house. They found him hanging in a stairway closet...