Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early Carter impulsiveness ran counter to advice Vance had laid down in the pre-election period. He had warned against moving too quickly on too many issues...
Bell reviewed this evidence last April and approved an indictment against the supervisor of Squad 47, John Kearney, 55, on five counts of illegal wiretapping, intercepting mail and conspiracy. That action drew a storm of protest from the FBI's ranks. By Bell's estimate, letters ran 100 to 1 against his decision. Some agents took the unprecedented step of even picketing the FBI's New York headquarters. Morale sagged in FBI offices across the country...
...called "a clean sweep." In Manila, where the election had turned into an emotionally charged referendum on martial law itself, Marcos' stalwarts took all 21 seats over the energetic opposition Laban Party. Marcos' wife Imelda was the biggest vote getter, but even the last-place Marcos partisan ran 300,000 votes better than Laban Leader Benigno Aquino Jr., an archfoe of Marcos, who had to campaign from the military detention center where he has been held on charges of murder and subversion since the day martial law was declared...
There is another potential winner. For Fred Sullivan, 63, the red-haired and compulsively energetic chairman of Walter Kidde, the sale of U.S. Lines completes an eight-year saga of frustration and expensive litigation. Sullivan, a Litton Industries alumnus who ran the conglomerate with Founders Tex Thornton and Roy Ash, has built Kidde from a sleepy outfit into a diversified firm (cranes, safety equipment, sporting goods, etc.) with 1977 sales of $1.5 billion and profits of $56.7 million. But the acquisition of U.S. Lines in 1969 for $104 million in cash and stock was, Sullivan admits, a grave mistake...
...pulled muscle in his side and hitting nothing close to his best serve, forced the Lions' sophomore sensation. Eric Fromm, to a second-set tiebreaker before succumbing. Scott Walker also lost, blowing a lead when Aussie Greg Dingwall came alive while trailing 4-1 in the second set and ran off nine straight games to win the match in three sets...