Word: uniformed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today, at 250 locations in and near major cities, the green Holiday Inn marquee and the yellow McDonald's arches have company: the red steeple housing a black plastic nonringing bell, the symbol of Alabama-based Kinder-Care Learning Centers, Inc. By offering a service that is safe, uniform and reasonably priced, it has become the largest network of places where parents can deposit offspring for a few liberating hours...
...unique among U.S. appeals courts, it is not because other judges have not explored new ways of clearing their dockets. On the West Coast, the Ninth Circuit has experimented with efficiency controls. But its sheer geographic size-it runs from Arizona to Alaska to Guam-makes uniform procedure difficult to impose and spreads the circuit's 13 judges thin. The Fifth, which covers many Southern states, is the busiest of the circuits, handling almost 30% of all federal appeals. Fifth judges have taken even more draconian time-saving measures than the Second. Under its "summary calendar system," oral argument...
...adviser to Stilwell, Colonel David Barrett, chief of U.S. military observers in Yenan, and I had gone to the airstrip to see one of our rare weather-service planes arrive. But there was a second plane, and out of it descended a six-foot-three-inch character in American uniform and overcoat, the pants pressed knife-sharp, a silver-haired, bushy-mustached major general, whose chest was covered with ribbons from shoulder to rib cage. It was Hurley. Barrett, as senior American military officer, approached, looked the general up and down, offered the observation, "General, it looks...
Yvette's athletic gifts are equal to her hopes. Her coach, Laura Holden, states unequivocally: "Yvette is the most talented player I've ever seen. When I first saw her shoot, I just about fainted." But Holden is leaving Fremont, and no coach has been hired to replace her. Uniforms are in such short supply that they must be shared by three teams; Yvette has to retrieve her uniform from a volleyball player to pose for photographs. Says Holden: "If she was a young man and had this kind of potential and ability, there would be no question...
Frank Collin, 33, is a swaggering bullyboy who likes to dress up in a Nazi uniform, spout totalitarian dogma and howl racial slurs. Aryeh Neier, 41, the son of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, runs the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that protects individual freedoms. For the past 14 months, Neier and the A.C.L.U. have defended the right of Collin and a small band of brownshirts to taunt the citizens of Skokie, Ill., thousands of whom are survivors of Nazi death camps...