Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans are eager to be sprung from Mexican jails. Twenty percent of those eligible for transfer have chosen not to serve out their time in U.S. prisons. Reason: in spite of the corruption, Mexican prisons are less regimented than penitentiaries north of the border. Inmates are allowed to wear their own clothes, prepare their own food and enjoy conjugal visits from wives or girlfriends...
...looking at records at this juncture of the season proves nothing. It's how a team is playing (sometimes in spite of its record) that counts. Harvard triumphantly proved last night that its 1977-78 edition can play with anyone else in the ECAC...
...Diana Gamser and Jim Smith have their roles down perfectly, they don't seem to be acting. The play develops occasional snags with some dead lines from Hoyt and Hall, as well as some zingers that miss. However, Hoyt and Hall center the focus of the play effectively, in spite of their deficiencies...
...have Americans so ignored the energy crisis? The most common reason seems to be the lack of any motive to do otherwise. In spite of the convincing arguments of experts, most Americans simply do not believe an energy crisis exists. In a Gallup poll last summer, only 38% of the people were willing to call the energy situation "very serious." A recent New York Times-CBS poll found that fully 57% of Americans just do not share President Carter's concern...
...farm, was founded by Alex Hargrave, 31, who holds a Harvard M.A. in Chinese studies, with the help of his wife Louisa, who studied wine chemistry, and his brother Charles. The Hargraves plant only vinifera, no hybrids. Remarked Alex: "If you can grow avocados, why grow brussels sprouts?" In spite of the Hargraves' recently planted vines and inexperience, their Sauvignon blanc was given top rating among New York wines tasted recently by Wine Author Alexis Bespaloff (The Fireside Book of Wine) and Vintage Magazine Publisher Philip Seldon. Seldon was also "impressed with the hints of the future...