Word: standing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elsewhere, the economic facts of life were making it harder for the truckers to stay idle. Monthly payments for their rigs are as high as $2,000, more than the cost of most home mortgages. They stand to lose a lot of money by refusing to work, and they do not have a strike fund. They also ran into a tough reaction from local governments. Admits Mac Vernon, a spokesman for the Independent Truckers Association: "Local officials are getting injunctions to stop picketing and blockading, and some companies are saying, 'You either run or you're fired...
...piece follows the Graham technique. Two dancers stand on stage, bodies rigid, hands clasped around their waists, expressions stony. One faces two high-backed chairs, back to back, seating two onlooking dancers. The other faces an empty wooden stocks, a dancer behind. The music begins, slow at first but full of potent emotion. Their bodies become expressions of the music...
Crane Beach is also one of the most expensive beaches in America. The only place to park is on beach land, and to enter the parking lot, you must pay $4.75 per car on weekends, $3 on weekdays. The hot dog stand is inconspicuous and confined to the parking lot; there are no American flags...
Faced with denials, Automotive News Editor Robert M. Lienert said that his magazine would stand by its story. Meanwhile, Chrysler's somnolent stock suddenly became the most heavily traded shares on the New York Stock Exchange, where they quickly jumped by $2.50 to close the week...
...unjustifiable. In one year 4,500 books were stolen from the Berkeley library. When caught, college thieves and cheaters tended to say, "I didn't do anything that everyone else isn't doing." Faculties were not much help. Many, Lament reports, objected to taking a moral stand for fear of "sounding like scolds" to their students. As a University of Chicago professor confided, "We lack the language to teach right and wrong...