Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Another reason for not voting for Carter is his pious use of the U.S. Navy to locate boat people in the China Sea. In a recession, Americans don't need "coolie labor" to take away jobs and decent labor practices that made America great...
...reason for this reminiscence is that Jimmy Carter is possessed of the same drive, and as he pounded over the hills of Catoctin Mountain in pursuit of a 46-min. time for the 6.2-mile course, he surely had in the back of his mind the historical footnote that would rank him as the first President to run that far some place other than in a primary election...
Both the FAA and the Boeing Co. reacted more cautiously to the 707 incidents. Reason: no one knew what caused the planes' flaps to rupture. While federal investigators looked for answers, the manufacturer maintained that there was no cause for concern, even though the five chunks of heavy metal that fell on Palatine narrowly missed hitting a school...
...admissions and school work as our main reason to be," Rider says. The committee Trueheart heads interviews applicants and meets with interested students to answer questions about Harvard. "It's not exactly recruiting--if you recruited 50 applicants and only five were accepted, that wouldn't spread much goodwill," he says. The admissions office has no quotas for regions or cities, but Trueheart says there are general "traditions" that usually govern the number of applicants accepted from a city--recently it's been about seven a year from Rochester...
...with a senior partner in a southern law firm and a president of a small southern college. Rogers claims the appointments are a sign of the success of the corporate campaign. Corporate leaders are increasingly reluctant to be associated with Stevens, he asserts. In fact, Rogers says the major reason Man Hanny accepted the resignations of Finley and Mitchell was not because it feared the loss of over $1 billion in labor pension funds, but rather because it feared its reputation would be tarnished if it were publicly linked with J.P. Stevens. Banks are especially vulnerable to the corporate campaign...