Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apart from business and industry, 50 labor unions maintain their separate offices in Washington, often working independently from A.F.L.-C.I.O. Chief George Meany's 300-member staff, which occupies an impressive stone and marble headquarters near the White House. Politically aware action groups also have their lobbyists in Washington, including 14 that pursue the special interests of the elderly and six that deal with air pollution. Even the Virgin Islands Gift Fashion Shop Association has a lobbyist. Large staffs are maintained by such broader public interest groups as Common Cause and the Ralph Nader organization. Grumbles House Speaker...
...Bernard Ryan, 34, an adept burglar thought to be part of the gang, was found shot to death in a car in suburban Stone Park. Two weeks later police discovered the mutilated body of Garcia in the trunk of a car at a motel near Chicago's O'Hare Airport. A fourth jewel thief associated with the gang, John McDonald, 43, was shot to death in a North Side alley in April...
...Leeds Castle. Security was extremely tight. Dayan and Kamel landed in a special section of London's Heathrow Airport, which had been barricaded by tanks, armored cars and British troops. Vance's jet was diverted to a Royal Air Force base. At the castle, sharpshooters manned the stone turrets, and sentries with guard dogs patrolled the grounds and single drawbridge access...
Because the value of pre-Columbian art spirals upward faster than California real estate, even the largest treasures are not safe. Last month a quarter-ton stone figure of an ancient priest chewing coca, known as El Coquero and dating back some 3,000 years, vanished from its site in San Agustin in southwest Colombia. Ecuadorian officials are trying to retrieve an entire 11,000-item collection of Andean treasures that somehow managed to turn up in Milan and Turin, where they were being put up for sale...
Heitz started with almost nothing, and he certainly is no Henry Ford II, but he can say, with Ford's proud independence, "My name is on the building." Right in his backyard, in two gray stone structures that are 100 paces from his white frame house, Heitz, Wife Alice, Son David and four hired hands make a product that is sold in half the nation's states. He is chief executive of Heitz Wine Cellars, which means that he is also vintner, bacteriologist, accountant, marketing manager and occasional lawn mower...