Word: rigging
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...three contenders might well determine the outcome on election day. If APRA and Haya de la Torre should win, they face the possibility that Peru's military men, emboldened by the Argentine example, will attempt to annul the election. Odria already accuses APRA of trying to rig the voting. "If the government allows fraud, there will be deeds not words," shouted Odria at a rally in Lima. And last week the army, which is charged with supervising the election, reported the discovery of 1,591 falsified voting cards. It did not accuse APRA-but the party remembers the statement...
From 1948 to March 1961, charged the indictment, various defendants conspired, in violation of the Sherman Act. to fix prices and rig bids on "open-die steel forgings" (large steel shapes, mostly shafts and axles, formed by hammering or pressing the metal rather than by rolling or casting). Some of the fixing and rigging sessions took place at meetings of a New York outfit called the Open Die Forging Institute, according to the indictment, and at these meetings the institute's secretary was excused, "with the result that the minutes did not reflect such discussions." The conspiracy...
...bitter opposition, he provoked Southern Democrats with open criticism of their civil rights stand, attacked Lyndon Johnson and the late Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn for "moving too slowly toward a positive legislative program," had his last good scrap in 1960 when Truman accused him of trying to rig the Democratic Convention for Kennedy...
...bulldozers to push several steel huts up close to the fire. From these, Gassi Touil roustabouts will spray water high into the air to form a cooling curtain for Adair and his men as they move in to attach hooks to the twisted remains of GT-2's rig and blown-out pipe, and winch the debris out of the way. Then a bulldozer will maneuver explosives on the end of a 200-ft. boom right up to the flames. If all goes right, the blast will snuff out the fire by momentarily interrupting the flow...
...mind their long classroom hours-up to 24 hours per week-but complain about the lack of teaching aids, notably for science courses. "There's no electricity for physics demonstrations," says Penn State's Donald Groff, 22, who teaches in Accra, "so I have to rig up homemade apparatus with wires and batteries. But we manage somehow...