Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...departmental policies?and would be again if he were to return to the Cabinet after a Nixon reelection. Cynical, too, was Stans' frantic drive to round up more than $10 million in donations before a new law would make public the identity of the donors, and in spite of Nixon's pious pronouncement that disclosure would "guard against campaign abuses and work to build
...this was in spite of various glaring differences with his board of directors, whom Bing does not spare in his book. Of George Moore, for example, Met president and former board chairman of the Manhattan-based First National City Bank, Bing writes: "Moore could not believe there is a basic, unbridgeable difference between a theater and a bank or a rug factory." But, as Bing readily concedes, Moore time and again came up with money the Met badly needed...
...SPITE OF ALL WE'RE DOING TO KEEP FOOD PRICES DOWN, CERTAIN PRICE INCREASES YOU SEE IN FOOD STORES ARE INEVITABLE. IT'S SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR FOOD STORES TO ABSORB REPEATED WHOLESALE COST INCREASES FROM THE MANUFACTURERS WITHOUT REFLECTING SOME PART OF THESE INCREASES IN RETAIL PRICES...
...spite of all the training, Charlotte says that the starts of races are often scenes of mass confusion. Much depends on a cool-headed coxswain, according to Charlotte, because of the tension that mounts up while waiting for the other boats to line up for a floating start. In addition, much self-control is required during the race to avoid increasing the stroke rate individually, instead of applying each stroke harder...
...wish to take personal exception to the inference made by your correspondent Peter Range. I have made my home on St. Croix for the past eleven years, and in spite of the recent tragedy, I still love my home and feel 1,000% safer here than I ever could in any major city on the U.S. mainland...