Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jerna Jacques's performance on a scrappy midfield unit and attackman David Raymond's three goals and one assist in the fourth quarter, the Bears stampeded the effective but beleaguered Crimson netminder. Baltimore product Leroy Thompson...
Tuerkheimer's record is not flamboyant, but it is impressive. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York, he rose to become chief of the securities-fraud unit. He brought about 25 cases to court and lost only three. Tuerkheimer took three years off to teach law at the University of Wisconsin, then sent a resume to the Watergate special prosecutor. He was quickly snapped up and assigned 15 months ago to the "milk fund" investigation. His skilled performance led to his selection for the Connally trial...
Barnet and Müller begin soundly enough by identifying the main problem created by multinationals as one of policy lag. While nations plan on a coun-try-by-country basis, international firms view the world as a single unit and plan accordingly. Thus, Barnet and Muller contend, "the structural transformation of the world economy through the globalization of Big Business is undermining the power of the nation-state to maintain economic and political stability within its territory...
...friend of mine got blown apart in Hue," said an Army major last week, sipping coffee in a Pentagon cafeteria. "He was in charge of a long-range artillery unit. And now you see the people just walking away from Hué. You don't say to yourself, 'He died for nothing.' But you ask: 'For what?' What have we got after nine years? Twenty-twenty hindsight is always preferable, but we probably did the best we could at the time. But still you ask yourself: 'Was it worth it?' There is just...
...March 18 five years ago, President Lon Nol led the coup in Phnom-Penh that forced neutralist Prince Norodom Sihanouk into exile. Last week rockets fired by the Khmer Rouge insurgents kept raining down on the besieged capital, more embassies closed, students demonstrated and a unit of loyalist troops went on strike, but somehow the government survived for another week despite a growing awareness that the U.S. Congress was not about to authorize any more military aid. Meanwhile, there were speculations that Lon Nol may be quitting as President within the next two weeks...