Word: ridings
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Some U.S. military planners saw the Denmark imbroglio as an example of the oft-heard U.S. charge that several prosperous alliance members are "getting a free ride" on defense. As in Denmark, opposition parties elsewhere have threatened to overturn longstanding defense arrangements if they are voted into power. The British Labor Party and the West German Social Democrats, for example, oppose U.S. nuclear weapons on their territory...
...Science recipients, eight MacArthur Foundation Fellows and six Pulitzer prizewinners. Stanford students have won 59 Rhodes Scholarships and 27 Marshall Scholarships. Among the university's illustrious alumni are Supreme Court Justices William Rehnquist, Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor; Football Stars Jim Plunkett and John Elway; Astronaut Sally Ride; TV Commentator Ted Koppel and -- would you believe? -- Harvard President Derek...
Harvard took a nine-hour bus ride to William and Mary yesterday. More long journeys await the Crimson if it advances in the tournament. But nothing is sweeter than an NCAA championship, an opinion the members of the 1904 golf team would confirm, if only they were around today...
...Bobby began to blaze a trail of righteousness. Or he simply elevated his vaunted ruthlessness to new heights, depending on whom you asked. Either way, history was being shaped. No journalist could resist going along for the ride. . It was to be a short one, just long enough for a candidate to grow and change before the nation's eyes. And then an assassin took history into his own hands. Just as the world was beginning to know him, Bobby Kennedy left...
...make a profit. Golden Gate Bridge District, the largest ferry operator on San Francisco Bay, lost $2.8 million last year. New York's subsidized Staten Island Ferry, by far the nation's busiest, costs just 25 cents for a round trip (vs. $1 for a subway or bus ride) and sails along with a $26 million annual deficit. Nevertheless, several prospective services are being proposed by entrepreneurs. In San Diego two firms have proposed water-taxi services to shuttle conventioneers and tourists between the city's new waterfront convention center and hotels and restaurants around the bay. In Detroit investors...