Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...participants describe it, the vote-buying operation followed standard procedure. The night before the election, top moneymen met in a private home in Leesville, the parish seat, to map out their strategy. Some $40,000 was divided among men called haulers who would round up voters and pay $5 to $15 per ballot. Each hauler received $50 to $75 for his services along with a free tank of gas and the promise of a bonus if the right...
...office before they go to press?and placing calls to the various trades about the new positions of RSO products. If, as RSO National Sales Manager Mitch Huffman says, "the charts are Coury's bible," then the boss is certainly not averse to applying for a revised standard version. He'll bluster, cajole, even strongarm an editor for a more favorable chart position. Says Wilson: "Coury's the only record company president that makes those calls. And I mean the only...
Bacall is not overly reflective about her times. She has a few standard warnings about the danger of Communist witch hunts. But mainly she clicks off the events and people in her life with the diligent rhythms of the Twentieth Century Limited, which she had boarded in 1943 to start her film career. The exception is when she recounts Bogart's stoic struggle with terminal cancer. Here her prose becomes spare and piercing: "I sat with him, had coffee-he still couldn't forget the night before. I asked him if he felt better...
...emigration has been stopped; no longer can it be said that Ireland's greatest export is men. The population is rising for the first time in modern history. Irishmen are returning home from distant lands. And a most remarkable development is occurring: at current growth rates, the Irish standard of living-based on production per capita-in 1980 will surpass that of once mighty Britain...
...minority percentage in the community. For example, if 25% of the schoolchildren living within a district's boundaries belonged to minorities, then a private school located in that district would need at least 5% minority students to qualify as tax exempt. If a school failed to meet that standard, then it would have to demonstrate such good-faith efforts as recruiting and offering scholarships to minorities...