Word: rigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, and Andrew Heiskell '37, president of the Board of Overseers, denied that the upcoming nominations amount to an attempt to "rig" the election, one member of the current board said the AHA's reported plans are "totally incompatible with the spirit of a free election...
...group set up a formal headquarters in Paris, complete with a paid secretariat, policy and operating committees and detailed rules for dividing up markets and fixing prices. Those rules forbade members to share markets or rig prices in France, South Africa, Australia, Canada and the U.S., in order to stay clear of local antitrust rules. But whenever a member company learned of a potential order from an outside country-Japan, say, or Spain-it had to inform the secretariat. The cartel would then select a member to bid at a price it had set; to preserve appearances, another member would...
...identifies himself on the air, and what the movie seems to be saying is that one should use some care in picking it. There is a tendency to act out, first in fantasy, then in reality, the sort of life suggested by one's handle. In effect, a CB rig offers a form of power to the powerless of our society, a way for them to make themselves heard in a world that does not pay them much heed. This is what has become of the Middle Americans who exercised such a powerful, if brief, hold on journalistic and political...
Berenson distributed handbills before the election, alleging that "There has been an attempt to rig this election...
...entrance. Shortly after leaving the station, Trottin found himself cut off by a disabled truck and got out to give a hand. Minutes later the two were surrounded by four pistol-carrying men and ordered into a nearby Peugeot sedan. One gunman took the wheel of Trottin's rig; the other three followed in the Peugeot with the two hostages. Trottin and the other trucker, neither of whom is a police suspect, were released 15 minutes later on Paris' northern outskirts...