Word: standing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response to Khomeini's demand for the Shah, Carter, in a forceful performance during a nationally televised press conference last week, renewed his vow never to yield to blackmail. His stand has won him the strongest support among Americans since he became President...
...committee instead wrote and approved a much tougher bill. It offers Chrysler federal guarantees of $1.25 billion and demands, as a firm precondition, major concessions from all who stand to benefit from the company. It also seeks the creation of an employee stock ownership plan, which some Senators are promoting as a way to give workers a stake in their firms and share in profit growth. But, following Inflation Fighter Alfred Kahn's earlier attack on the "outrageous" United Auto Workers' wage settlement with Chrysler, the committee's most contentious call was for a three-year wage...
...advice may or may not "minimize his tax bite and manage himself into a surplus" as the author promises, but he will have had a good time for his $8.95. Explaining that loan rates can be negotiated, the Forbes magazine editor urges readers to take a firm stand with their bankers: "Insert the term 'banking relationship' into the conversation like a nicely greased thermometer and mention the imposing size of your checking and savings account balances. If that doesn't get you at least a centigrade or so more cordiality - to say nothing of a quarter...
THERE'S ONLY ONE STORY I'll ever tell." A whore stood with her pink thumb out to the road, blocking his cab stand. He interrupted himself, stomped the accelerator and rammed his front bumper up to the whore's tinsel dress...and stopped...
...familiar to doctors. The patient desperately needs blood for an operation but is a member of Jehovah's Witnesses, a group with religious beliefs that forbid blood transfusions. Often physicians must stand idly by while such a patient dies. But now, in one case at the University of Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis, doctors have resolved this dilemma. The solution: a transfusion using artificial blood, the first time it has been attempted...