Word: shockely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...southern trucking conference that would have allowed the lines involved a 23.96% annual profit on stockholders' equity, and approved one that will hold the return to 14.78%. Its reasoning: truckers should not get a return greater than the average for manufacturers. That ruling is still sending shock waves through the industry, and O'Neal expects a lawsuit over it. Undaunted, he wants to set maximum and minimum charges and within those limits allow truckers to post any rates dictated by competition...
Blanton's actions set off a wave of shock and disbelief among Tennesseans. Throughout his four years in office, his policy on pardons and commutations has been under attack. In all, some 600 pardons and clemency documents were issued. They were first signed by Appointments Secretary Kenneth Lavender, but were ruled invalid by a chancery court judge who found that Lavender did not have the authority to approve them. Blanton promptly reissued all of them under his own signature. Last month a federal grand jury began investigating him and his administration on charges of selling pardons and commutations...
...researcher thinks he can explain how animals anticipate quakes. Writing in Nature, Biochemist Helmut Tributsch of the Max Planck Society's Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin says that animals can apparently sense, quite literally, that a quake is in the air. His theory: before the major shock hits, the earth releases such great masses of charged particles, or ions, that the atmosphere is almost alive with electricity. Such electrostatic activity, while discomforting enough to humans (it can cause headaches, irritability and nausea), may be more irritating to the delicate senses of many animals...
...mindless sex object and the heroes are winning rakes, Blier all but invites condemnation as a sexist. But this film maker doesn't brood over trendy labels; he's willing to risk offending people to get what he wants. In Handkerchiefs, Blier uses the stereotypes to shock the audience, then lead it to higher ground. This is not a film for those who want the pat, right-minded answers of An Unmarried Woman or Girlfriends: it unfolds in the subconscious, where sentimental bromides about men and women give way to harder truths...
Safety Charlie Waters led a Dallas defensive assault that forced the Rams into offensive shock. In their home Colisseum, the Rams committed seven turnovers, Waters stealing two passes and recovering a fumble to set up a pair of Dallas scores...