Word: renewed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what he calls the "bluestocking brigade" (the middle-class Protestant Establishment) as he is of "old red socks" (the Pope). Last week Paisley and his "loyalists" in the United Unionist Action Council called a general strike, Northern Ireland's first in three years, to force the British to renew tough search-and-destroy operations against the terrorists in the Catholic districts and reinstate the majority-rule (meaning Protestant-dominated) provincial Parliament in Belfast. The earlier strike had led to the fall of the provincial government and caused Britain to impose direct rule. This time, however, it was a different...
...Sparks took over the 468-unit Twelve Oaks apartment complex in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, he knew what he wanted to do with it: get the children out and turn it into a singles development. At first he told tenants who have children that he would not renew their leases, but a 1909 Illinois statute was discovered prohibiting such a landlord action. Then Sparks decided to levy a $15-a-month head tax for each child in the buildings...
...year, $31 billion program to speed up the U.S. economy, and Mondale pressed the Germans and Japanese to follow that example. But West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who reflects his country's historic fear of inflation, opposes heating up his economy too quickly. Carter is expected to renew the plea, but gingerly. Says one White House adviser: "We've made our point and we'll make it again. But we're not going...
...meet unified women's swimming and diving in the Ivy League, giving many of the swimmers a chance to renew old friendships, compare times, and share their experiences as swimmers at different schools...
Though these steps have hauled GEICO back into the black, and the $75 million sale of preferred stock has rebuilt its depleted reserves, the company is likely to go on shrinking for a while. GEICO is still losing policyholders it wants to keep; some are failing to renew because they distrust the company's finances, others because they will not accept the stiff premium increases. GEICO sells homeowners' insurance as well as auto policies-and some mortgage lenders are demanding that householders switch to richer insurers as their GEICO policies expire. Counting the policies already taken over...