Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...council meeting with his proposal that all councilors be required to file detailed records of their personal finances, as well as civil and criminal dockets, with the city clerk. The council had been recently debating whether a similar requirement could be made on a city treasurer who had somehow run up more than $25,000 worth of gambling debts. Frisoli was angered that the council members could require disclosure of one of their subordinates, but not of themselves. The meeting adjourned without even considering Frisoli's plan...
...Somehow, in spite of environmentalists' success in blocking the resort, Mineral King's transition from an issue pushed by public pressure to one backed by legal maneuvering is discouraging. Of course the controversy has had its good moments: for one, the Disney Corporation has learned its lesson, is letting the Forest Service handle the project, and is concentrating on its plans for a resort near Lake Tahoe with the advice of the Sierra Club...
...because they know that voter apathy represents the biggest stumbling block on their path to political control. "The major problem is that people think because they have rent control and a start on police department reform, because they have low taxes and have stopped the Kennedy Library, that somehow there's nothing to fear," Duehay said...
...first meeting with Springsteen began after midnight in an Italian restaurant on Manhattan's East Side. The two then drove down the New Jersey Turnpike to the singer's seaside bungalow. Springsteen, who is wary of journalists and normally reticent, began to open up during the ride. "Somehow the driving seemed to release something," Willwerth reports. "We talked about his family, his music, his early bar-hopping band days, the fame that is catching up with him for good and bad." Interrupted only for forays to Springsteen's rapidly depleted refrigerator, the interview stretched through a pale...
More than half the waiting ships are loaded down with cement, 2.4 million tons of it. And that's only a part of the order. In all, Nigeria somehow managed to contract for 21 million tons of cement, about ten times the total amount that the lagoon port could handle in a year even without other cargo to unload. Because of the chemical makeup of the cement, much of it may not be usable for building after six months. Last week Brigadier Murtala Mohammed, who ousted Gowon in a coup last July, ordered an official inquiry to see whether...