Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impromptu pillage, Road Manager Ron Eckerman, 24, promptly pays damage bills averaging $1,000 a month. That does not heal all wounds. In many cities, none of the major hotels will rent rooms to Lynyrd Skynyrd. When the band is booked in Atlanta, for example, they stay at a resort an hour's drive from the city. Wilkeson is not concerned. "We're hot now," he says. "Let's keep running...
While Jimmy Carter has settled most of his indignation on getting rich unfairly-on tax loopholes and the lobbyists who preserve and enlarge them -his fervid campaign cries often have biblical overtones suggesting that the wealthy are vaguely evil. Gerald Ford, on the other hand, eagerly indulges in the resort rituals of the rich and some-tunes seems more enamored with White House luxuries like Camp David and Air Force One than his job. Ford's love of the golf circuit back in his congressional days could cost him crucial support, since it has been revealed corporations footed some...
...Khama, 55, has been expanding ties with black African countries and refuses to have diplomatic relations with either Pretoria or Salisbury. Forced by geography to be the most conservative of the front-line-five presidents, Khama denies the presence of Rhodesian guerrillas in his country and is reluctant to resort to violent confrontation...
...rocket barrage from their positions in the Bekaa. As town after town was hit, Palestinian defenders took advantage of the mist and smoke from exploding rounds to slip out of their positions. Arafat himself had nearly been hit earlier when Syrian gunners rained shells and rockets into Aley, a resort town on the Beirut-Damascus highway where the P.L.O. leader was conferring with his military commanders in a luxury villa...
...development's 132 new houses. In Huntington Harbor, a marina complex south of Los Angeles, Christiana Co. recently offered 52 houses, ranging in price from $104,000 to $195,000. In all, 111 people showed up, and the firm also had to resort to a lottery...