Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to the statement, the Carter family peanut business, which is 62% owned by the President, ran $73,572.44 in the red last year, after losing more than $300,000 in 1977. From the thriving family farm, which is 91% owned by Carter, Kirbo made loans of $250,000 to the warehouse and $250,000 to Billy Carter. The farm land that Billy pledged as collateral was promptly assumed by the trust, apparently as a face-saving way to free him from the debt...
...young man in the wheelchair began speaking softly, but then his voice turned bitter. His tone and words hushed the crowd at the city hall ceremony in Manhattan marking the beginning of Viet Nam Veterans Week. "You people ran a number on us," declared Robert Muller, 33, a former Marine lieutenant who lost the use of his legs in Viet Nam combat when a bullet shattered his spine. "Your guilt, your hang-ups., your uneasiness made it socially unacceptable to mention the fact that we were Viet Nam veterans." Pounding his knee with a clenched fist, he accused most Americans...
Cooke's divestiture came at the end of three bitter years of exile from the teams he once ran with the glee of a small boy on Christmas morning. He fled to Nevada in a vain attempt to escape California's community property laws during an acrimonious divorce and, suffering from a heart ailment, lost touch with his clubs. In his heyday, Cooke made the trades (Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), picked the draft choices, coached the coaches and chastised waiters in the Forum Club restaurant for allowing a guest's water glass to remain empty...
When The Confessions of Nat Turner was published twelve years ago, William Styron was pilloried by some blacks and liberals. How, their attack ran, dare a white Southerner appropriate the mind and soul of a black slave? Sophie's Choice, Styron's first novel since then, may prompt a similar ambush. What business has an American Wasp writing about the European, chiefly Jewish, victims of the Holocaust? If taken seriously, such questions are dangerous. Areas of the imagination can be fenced off for certain groups alone only at everyone's peril. The question is not whether Styron...
...frenzy at the Majestic has plenty of precedents. The 1971 remake of No, No, Nanette, for instance, seemed doomed. Rehearsals were a continual change in dance steps, dialogue and costumes. The legendary Busby Berkeley was superseded by Burt Shevelove. But when Nanette finally reached Broadway, it ran for 861 performances, and then toured the country. Funny Girl (1964) postponed its opening five times and went through 40 rewrites of the last scene. Finally, Jerome Robbins was brought in as production supervisor and added several songs, including You Are Woman...