Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tension ran high on Dec. 23, the date for the award. At both plants it was the last day of work before a ten-day vacation, and the scenes began identically: as noon approached, workers began preparing for annual lunch-in parties (no liquor, but lots of special things to eat). A few minutes after 12, the grapevines came alive with news of Sikorsky's victory...
...seeks an injunction barring further sales of stock in the Ramayana. Its action comes a bit late: Sutowo, 62, seems to have no need of further capital. Although he was fired by Pertamina last year after it ran up debts and losses of perhaps $10 billion, he remains one of the richest men in Indonesia. His restaurant partners have not been as lucky. They still own stock in the Ramayana, but the shares have never paid dividends-and oilmen get no discounts on their rijsttafel...
...Face. More briefly a "White Venus" entered his life: Apollonie Sabatier, a famous salon keeper of the day. She elicited a series of poetic love letters-including To She Who Is Too Gay and The Spiritual Dawn. When, after five years, Apollonie wrote him a valentine, Baudelaire cut and ran. He could put a woman on a pedestal or in the gutter, but there was no middle ground. "I have odious prejudices about women," he confessed...
...Kraft, 35, appointments secretary. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala, he ran Carter's successful campaigns in the crucial Iowa precinct caucuses and the Pennsylvania primary. He was also the transition staffs political coordinator...
...presidential election, which is scheduled for June. In a three-way campaign that is already getting heated, Miller is running for re-election against Union Secretary-Treasurer Harry Patrick and U.M.W. International Board Member Lee Roy Patterson. Patrick, 46, a voluble, fiery fourth-generation miner from Monongah, W. Va., ran with Miller on the reform ticket in 1972 and represents the progressive wing of the union. Though he came to office without bookkeeping experience or a high school education, he is credited with putting the U.M.W.'s ledgers in order after years of abuse under Boyle. Patterson...