Word: rashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Penultimate Question. The Supreme Court's decision will not start a rash of executions-at least, not immediately. Mindful of the many appeals pending in other capital cases, Governors in the 38 states that still retain the death penalty took cautious positions. California's Governor Ronald Reagan went on record again favoring the death penalty, but none of his state's 99 condemned men and women are expected to go to the gas chamber before late summer at the earliest. Ohio's Governor John Gilligan refused to be prodded at all by the court...
...collegiate basketball world has been shaken in recent weeks by the ABA's success in luring undergraduate players to quit school and sign professional contracts. Several star players have already come to terms and college coaches fear that a rash of such signings is in the offing...
...Gard Wiggins, Administrative Vice President of Harvard, will join President Pusey in an early retirement on July 1. The move is viewed by many observers as the first in an expected rash of retirements by top Pusey administrators...
...clearly feels that the University cannot give in: the precedent might lead to a rash of seizures by groups angered at University policies, presenting him with an even more difficult choice...
...rash U.S. decision, Richard Nixon might have been on the platform instead of Podgorny. When the darn was being planned in 1956, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser won pledges of $268 million in assistance from the World Bank, the U.S. and Britain. But when Nasser began talking about seeking funds from Moscow too, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles decided to punish him by revoking Washington's pledge. Britain and the World Bank thereupon also reneged. Moscow moved in with a flourish, eventually lending Cairo $554 million of the dam's $800 million cost. The Russians...