Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, although their views on a variety of subjects, including race relations and the war in Vietnam, diverged widely, Eastland and Hart were personal friends. Despite their friendship, however, Hart voted against Eastland when the latter ran for president pro tem of the Senate, believing that someone with Eastland's views should not be in the line of succession to the presidency...
...Democratic Party of Illinois he did; and Cook County; and the City of Chicago. He helped run the General Assembly in Springfield and he ran the slate-making process, which, months before the primary, anoints the candidates who will represent the Democrats on the local, county and state-wide level...
...disasters began more than two weeks ago, when the Liberian-flag tanker Argo Merchant, well off course, ran hard aground on the Nantucket shoals, a well-charted section of the sea just southeast of Nantucket Island. After a week's battering by wind and waves, the 640-ft. ship began breaking up, spilling its entire cargo into the frigid Atlantic. Immediately endangered were not only the sandy strands of Nantucket and Cape Cod but also the rich fishing grounds of Georges Bank. Shortly after the Argo Merchant grounding, another Liberian ship, the Sansinena, exploded in Los Angeles harbor with...
Heavy Traffic. Last week two more accidents occurred. Another Liberian tanker, the Daphne, ran aground off Puerto Rico and still another, the Olympic Games, grounded and suffered a hull puncture during a docking maneuver at Marcus Hook, Pa. Moving downstream in a slick 32 miles long, its cargo seeped into marshes, coating wintering waterfowl with a sticky layer of oil that matted their feathers and robbed them of their insulating properties. Tens of thousands of birds were endangered...
...Bottom Line. Start-up costs of New West, originally estimated by Felker at $1 million, ran over $3 million. Though New West is fat with ads and has a heady 240,000 circulation, expenses are outstripping revenues. Village Voice is still profitable, but its net income has dropped since the takeover. Thus, for the first time in years, N.Y.M. Co. will post an operating loss...