Word: standings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stratton unlocks the weapons-room door and distributes the rifles. That done, she strides over to the trainee barracks, a nearby three-story brick building. "Female on the floor! Female on the floor!" a door guard loudly yells. Stratton enters so briskly that the men have time only to stand up. "What's this?" she demands, spotting a crumpled white towel tied to the end of a bed. A senior drill sergeant explains, "It's there so we know who to call...
...cause of jailed New York Times Reporter Myron Farber have ever heard of Joe Pennington. But Pennington is facing a 60-day jail term for refusing to reveal his source in a murder case he covered last year for Wichita, Kans.' KAKE-TV-the same principled stand that put Farber behind bars...
...book Love and Responsibility (1960) before Paul VI took the same position in his much attacked Humanae Vitae encyclical of 1968. But the book also emphasized sexual pleasure for married couples ?an advanced view for a pre-Vatican II archbishop. Wojtyla has also taken an uncompromising stand against liberalized abortion, yet another issue on which he opposes Poland's Communist regime...
...Kroc, McDonald's Senior Chairman, in Tokyo to open stand No. 5,000, on his other role as owner of the San Diego Padres: "The club is a helluva lot of fun, like my wife, but there's no profit in either...
...billion reduction in individual income levies provided by the tax bill will just about offset the bite of increased Social Security taxes and the impact of inflation pushing people into higher tax brackets. But the cuts in corporate and capital gains taxes stand to improve the business climate and stimulate investment. The energy bill permits natural gas prices to rise significantly, leading to total decontrol in 1985, and meanwhile imposes the same pricing system on gas pumped and sold within a single state and fuel piped across state lines. Energy executives in Houston forecast that as a result, more...