Word: took
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Star Ranch was a legal brothel, and Fran York, its madam for the past eight years, not only ran one of the best little whorehouses in Nye County but was a highly respected member of the community. She helped buy uniforms for the local high school band, she regularly took out an ad in the high school yearbook, and she made donations to the Beatty volunteer fire department. "She's always the first one out there to help," says Benefit Organizer Helen Terry. Adds V.F.W. Member Norm Martindale: "The benefit is not for Fran's Star Ranch...
...miles south of the Brussels headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization lies the field of Waterloo. The famous battle that took place there in 1815 was, as the victorious Duke of Wellington said afterward, "a damned nice thing-the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life." So indeed was last week's meeting of the North Atlantic Alliance, at which members made one of the most crucial decisions in the organization's 31-year history: to modernize its Western European nuclear strike force with a new generation of intermediate-range missiles aimed directly...
When Speaker James Jerome ordered the "vote on division" at 9:50 p.m., the packed public gallery in Canada's House of Commons stirred with excitement. The balloting took only eleven minutes. When it was over, the Progressive Conservative government of Prime Minister Joe Clark, just 6½ months in office, had been stunningly upset. By a vote of 139 to 133, the Tories went down to defeat on a no-confidence motion supported by the combined opposition of Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberals (114 seats) and the New Democratic Party of Ed Broadbent (27 seats). When...
Clark's dramatic downfall took place over a classic bread-and-butter issue: the budget. At stake was an austerity program that had been outlined two days before by Finance Minister John Crosbie. The program's goal was to raise an extra $3.5 billion in Canadian tax revenue in order to move toward full energy independence for Canada by 1990. Unfortunately, it was not as simple as it seemed. Crosbie's budget called for whopping tax increases on gasoline, heating oil and alcohol, and a 5% surcharge on corporate taxes. The gasoline tax alone would be increased...
Seoul's 600,000-man armed forces were promptly placed on full alert, and tanks took up positions at major government buildings. The Carter Administration expressed alarm over the developments. "It's a power play, the three stars against the four stars," said a high official. U.S. Ambassador William Gleysteen Jr. was ordered to convey a tough message to the Korean brass: Keep your hands off politics or risk a grave rupture in U.S. relations. For the time being, at least, that warning held. President Choi, for his part, sought to show that his political timetable was unchanged...