Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...backing when he tried to win the job of chairman of the SEC after Bill Casey's anticipated departure. At the same time, Cook said, he mentioned to Stans that as part of the investigation into Vesco's affairs, the SEC was trying to trace what had happened to $250,000 that seemed to have disappeared. Cook testified that he told Stans that he understood Vesco may have given $50,000 to the Nixon re-election campaign...
...Venezuelan government's insistence that the fight be televised on home screens, it was no surprise that the multimillion-dollar sports palace El Poliedro was only half full by fight time. Nor should it have really been a surprise when Foreman walked in without the slightest trace of a limp. (He attributed his recovery to prayer.) Score Round 1 in the psychological fight to Foreman. Norton seemed to sense that he had been outmaneuvered. As Rondeau briefed the fighters at mid-ring, Norton carefully avoided Foreman's menacing glare by staring at the canvas...
...committees vote on varying packages of spending plans with insufficient knowledge of how their votes will affect total federal expenditures and the size of the budget deficit. A bill expected to win final congressional approval in a few weeks would create a Congressional Office of the Budget that would trace all appropriations as they move through the legislative process and add up the totals. That way Congressmen would get an overall view of how much is to be spent and where the money is coming from well before the final budget votes. The bill should pass and become...
Boyer and Nissenbaum trace the efforts of Salem Village--an extension of Salem peopled mainly by farmers who led their lives in time-honored ways--to win independence from an increasingly maritime and commercial Salem Town. The two authors interpret the support given both Parris and the witch trials by the Village's well-to-do but socially immobile farmers as an expression of deep-seated, complex anxieties provoked by the increasingly individualistic and commercialistic outlook of the townspeople who had hired Parris. Traditional patterns of order and hierarchy throughout New England were giving way to what would become 18th...
...Blotner thinks that any of these novels is better than another, he does not let on. (His approach is to trace the stages of writing and then, after publication, quote some reviews...