Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only tally of the contest came just two minutes into the first half, when two-time scoring leader Sarah Mleczko drilled a shot off a penalty corner by right wing Sue Field. Southern goalie Donna Pirillo deflected Mleczko's try, but junior Jenny Stone was waiting for the carom, and punched home the rebound...
Part of the problem is the stone wall thrown up by many oldtimers at the agency, which provides $5 billion a year worth of office space, supplies and housekeeping services to federal bureaucrats. The GSA veterans have survived past attempts at reform, and many of them are determined to tough out the current investigations. Said Alto: "You wouldn't believe the resistance we are meeting." So far, despite President Carter's instructions that he net some "bigger fish," Alto has been able to build cases against only small-fry officials and contractors...
...well as in foreign policy matters. A White House victory on the natural gas bill would silence, at least for the moment, critics who charge that Carter has been inept in dealing with Congress. And White House insiders consider acceptance of the President's energy plans a crucial stepping-stone to re-election...
...nuclear stance of the governors' association Nuclear Power Subcommittee. State troopers and Boston police kept a watchful eye on the small but noisy stream of protestors shouting, "Meldrim Thomson, Dixie Lee Ray, we don't believe a word you say." They distributed reprints of an article in Rolling Stone by Edward Kohn headlined, "The Government's Quiet War on Scientists Who Know Too Much." They chanted for about three hours, but provoked no confrontations or bad blood, just a lot of disgusted looks from Sheraton windows...
...Boston media-types are swamping Harvard SID Joe Bertagna with enquiries about freshman quarterback Ron Cuccia. The 5-9, 165-pound hot-shot has quite a rep following him from LA -- 91 TD tosses in high school. Lack of size could hurt him in the Ivies...Harvard grads Greg Stone, Chris Wood and John Brock are off to New Zealand for world rowing championships in October. Brock is the freshman heavyweight coach...