Word: statusful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barring a three-way race, Negrón is slightly favored to defeat New Progressive Party Candidate Luis Ferré, a fervent advocate of statehood and the only other significant candidate. If the Popular Democratic Party should indeed splinter, the era of Muñoz and of steady commonwealth status may be ended...
...Joseph Cullman III slapped down $110,400,000 for 50% of Gallaher's stock. Cullman's offer had two effects. Gallaher's board of directors stiff-upper-lipped it as "quite inadequate." And a major Gallaher shareholder that up to now had been satisfied with the status quo was shaken into action. American Tobacco has been a part of the market ever since 1901 when Founder James B. ("Buck") Duke stomped into London and tried to move into the industry. To keep him out, 13 British companies amalgamated into Imperial Tobacco, which is now Britain...
...usually begins, they were ordered to take turns reporting to army garrisons for four hours a day of marching. Some also got trips to the army barber and showed up for their regular jobs with considerably shorter hair. Pacheco's point was to "militarize" the clerks, a status that could make their next strike tantamount to desertion, or at the very least cost them their treasured pension rights. They were not among last week's strikers...
...frame through which El Cordobés' life is seen is his Big Fight - the 1964 Madrid corrida in which he was elevated to the status of matador de toros and in which he survived a near-fatal goring. Every tense moment in this corrida is the cue for a flashback: the future El Cordobés growing up in an earth-floored hovel where he sometimes has only grass to eat; serving a grueling apprenticeship at village fiestas where the only available medical care is a slosh of alcohol in an open wound; rising under the tutelage...
...them in action. Thus, Dylan is worth a trip to anywhere on the East Coast, the Stones are good for 300 miles, Jeff Beck 220 (i.e. to New York), and Loving Spoonful about as far as 40 cent subway ride will take one. We were uncertain about the status of the Who but since we were going the 45 miles to Providence to hear them we hoped it would be worth...