Word: station
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shaking with outrage and fear. I've had one traffic ticket in my life, with none of the strip searching in the police station [March 19] you mention. However, I would probably become a basket case if such a thing did happen to me. A person seems to be guilty until proved innocent. I don't want to sue after it happens; I want to keep it from happening...
...addition to worrying about rape whenever I get into my car alone, I have to fear being hauled into a police station where, for some minor traffic offense, I may undergo a publicly financed sexual assault...
Sunday evening. Sanjiv from Torrance makes it into the semifinals. So do nine others-an extra $500 for each of them. The big winner is lanky Dan Voll of Illinois, who raised $7,000 to fight alcoholism in Rockford, writes youth editorials for the local TV station and presides over his student government. His father works full time for the Boy Scouts of America. With five brothers and sisters, Dan needs the $10,000 scholarship very much. After a standing ovation, he closes his acceptance speech by saying, "If there's a word that sums up what Dan Voll...
Even harder hit would be Aroostook County, Me., a depressed potato-farming area, where a reduction of Loring Air Force Base to a forward operating station would cause the loss of 2,780 jobs. The state's congressional delegation claims that move would produce a $22 million drop in retail sales and a surge in unemployment from 11% to about 20%. Says Abraham Etscovitz, who owns an automobile dealership in nearby Caribou: "We're going to pray...
Malta, which had been a British colony since 1814, gained its independence in 1964. A ten-year military facilities agreement with London, signed that year, allowed the British to station 7,500 troops and technicians on the island. In return Malta received an estimated $70 million annually in rent and other income. But Malta's emotional and acerbic Prime Minister Dom Mintoff, who once tried to persuade the British to make Malta an integral part of the United Kingdom, decided that he did not want them there at all. The son of a ship's cook, Rhodes scholar...