Word: shooting
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APCO maintains that the region needs the Brumley Gap storage as a source of extra power during peak demand periods that lately have overstrained the company's resources. It also claims that the dam, and the pump to shoot water up out of the Holston River into the storage plant, can be built most economically in Poor Valley. These are hard arguments...
...screeched to a halt and some Iranian air force officers, along with a harried-looking man, hurried into the compound. Looking worried, he held a bullhorn to his mouth and shouted: "I am a representative of [Prime Minister Mehdi] Bazargan. Don't shoot. Orders from Khomeini." His bullhorn was not working. Almost nobody heard him, but he went on shouting: "This shooting is a conspiracy against Khomeini. Stop shooting. For the honor of the country, please stop...
Abortionists are trying to set up pro-life as a religious issue [Jan. 29] so they can shoot it down as such. Many pro-lifers are religious but that does not make it a religious issue. Abortion is a scientific and moral issue. A fetus is a living individual with a separate identity from conception. When one person's "right" inflicts death on another, that right becomes secondary...
...County police have traditionally projected an iron-fisted, shoot-first-ask-question-later image. Within a four-week period last year, white P.G. policemen fatally shot two unarmed black suspects. In nearby Washington, D.C., it is a standard warning that you don't venture into PG County unless absolutely necessary, and never at all after dark. "The police there don't take kindly to intruders, and they keep their own blacks squarely under thumb," as one black D.C. resident who used to live in P.G. County...
...that it never plans to do anything. However, one would think that the idea of shareholder responsibility meant asking a company to stop doing something that one doesn't like or asking it to do something that one thinks it should do. But the ACSR isn't about to shoot off a rocket. Imagine, the ACSR turns out to be a group charged, in the name of shareholder responsibility, with the solemn task of endlessly gathering information from obliging corporate officials. Perhaps it is high time for us to conclude that the people on the ACSR, wittingly or unwittingly...