Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thursday, the family asked the police to look for him. They found his car, a dark green 1974 Pontiac Grand Ville hardtop, in the parking lot outside the fashionable Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township, 15 miles northwest of Detroit. But there was no sign of Jimmy Hoffa, 62, the stubby, cocky, belligerent figure who was as tough as any truck driver on the road and who loved to wield the power of the Teamsters, the strongest and most feared labor union...
Michael F. Brewer, assistant to the vice president for government and community affairs, said yesterday if a student at the medical, dental or public health schools "refuses to sign a pre-admissions agreement to pay back federal grants or work, instead, in medically understaffed areas after graduating, Harvard must either reject that student or forego capitation under the proposed bill...
Harold Leigh, legislative analyst of the Bureau of Health Manpower, said yesterday one version of the pay-back provision requires students entering health schools to sign an agreement making them liable for mandatory remote-site services starting two years after their health school training ends, contingent upon a lottery selection process...
...bureau chief, refused to pledge submission and were hustled out of New Delhi at dawn Tuesday on a Beirut-bound Pan Am flight. The New York Times, TIME, the British Broadcasting Corp. and CBS-TV also turned down the pledge. Said Richard Salant, president of CBS News: "If we sign, we are either lying or submitting to their rules for bad journalism." A few reporters from United Press International, Associated Press, Reuters, the Los Angeles Times, ABC and NBC indicated that they were under orders from home to sign, if necessary, in order to stay on. However, most protested...
...extracted no explicit promise to submit to them. That left the press wondering whether the government had in effect backed down. Journalists from several Western news organizations, including CBS, the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor, felt that the pledge was now "innocuous" and agreed to sign -though with some misgivings. Interpreting it differently, journalists from Newsweek and the London Times were among those who rejected the document. TIME Correspondent David Aikman refused to sign the pledge and planned to leave India voluntarily. His conclusion: the government considers even the watered-down document to be morally binding...