Word: seven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's best two-year-old colt last year, the horse has rolled up five straight victories this spring, running away from all challengers in the East. All together, Spectacular Bid has been victorious in ten out of twelve starts. In the latest win, last week's seven-length romp in the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland Race Track in Lexington, Ky., the colt was a 1-20 favorite...
...heard the track announcer advertising an opening in Delp's stable. The youngster applied and was hired on the spot as a "hot-walker," the lowest stable job of cleaning out stalls and leading horses in endless circles to cool them off from workouts or races. He worked seven days a week, ten hours a day. Delp, divorced and rearing two teen-age sons, treated Franklin as a third...
Last week the industry's critics got some powerful new ammunition. Fifteen of the nation's largest oil companies released first-quarter profit figures, and they showed an acceleration of the winter-long earnings surge. Included in the group were six of the so-called Seven Sisters,* the richest and most powerful oil companies in the world, which, more so than their smaller competitors, have huge investments in all four aspects of the business: drilling, transporting, refining and marketing...
...generating public controversy in coming months are the fiscal 1980 defense budget and the imminent SALT II agreements, both of which Congress will be voting on. Unfortunately, much of the public awareness about the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks and the defense budget is based on faulty information and misinterpretation. Seven myths are prevalent in the current debate...
...These seven myths point up a number of paradoxes in U.S. military policy. This country has experienced over 30 years of relative peacetime, yet spends more today on preparation for war than during any past era except for the World War II and Vietnam years. We negotiate strategic arms limitations, yet deploy newer, potentially destabilizing nuclear weapons. We negotiate arms limitations in Europe, yet build up U.S. forces in NATO. We state that new precision-guided, highly accurate technologies are "revolutionizing" the battlefield, yet request funding for increasingly vulnerable, cost-ineffective weapon platforms such as aircraft carriers. And the federal...