Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nationals, held at the Louisiana State Fairgrounds at Shreveport. He lost to J.D. Seales, who at that time was the fifth ranked flyweight in the nation. After sustaining his second straight loss, a disgruntled DiNicola decided to throw in the towel, and he quit the team to rejoin his unit...
...contrary, the council maintains, the family's function has dwindled ever since the 18th century, when the group acted as a self-sufficient agricultural unit. Then, chores performed by children contributed to the economic well-being of the family; now, by contrast, kids are an enormous drain on their parents-each costing, by conservative estimate, at least $35,000 to support just through high school. Furthermore, as children spend increasing amounts of time outside the home, the parent is reduced to being a "coordinator without voice or authority...
...committee staff, moreover, has reconstituted itself into a true investigative unit, with Ribicoffs approval. Proffessional investigators have been borrowed from the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and eight to ten staff members have been boning up on every relevant document in the Lance affair. For the first witness, the committee will call Comptroller Heimann. Lance himself is tentatively scheduled to testify the next...
...government blames the guerrillas for every atrocity; the guerrillas blame the Rhodesian army's Selous Scouts, an elite mixed-race tracking unit whose members occasionally masquerade as guerrillas to test villagers' loyalties. Belingwe villagers are convinced, whatever the truth, that government forces last May killed the reserve's only black doctor, who had previously been warned against giving medicine to guerrillas. The government firmly insists that he was murdered by the "ters" (terrorists...
...just keeps bouncing amiably along, with Fonda at his most ingratiating, Saint James giving a performance that nicely balances Tina's strong drives toward both greed and love. Director Heffron (or his second-unit man) does not stage the several chase scenes as tightly as he might, and Writer Norton sketches scenes that could have been more fully developed comically and emotionally. They don't attempt to do for Austin, Texas - center of so-called outlaw country music - what Robert Altman did for Nashville. Still, Outlaw Blues is a pleasant, modest entertainment, which, like several other recent films...