Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ports. The nucleus of the "honored association," as the Mafia's members euphemistically referred to their organization, was the family, whose members were linked by blood or marriage. A group of families would be allied in a cosca (artichoke), a cluster of separate leaves forming a single unit...
...concluded his speech, a 1,200-member P.L.A. band struck up the first of several marches. The parade's leading unit, a 153-man, three-service honor guard, moved out at a brisk 116 paces a minute, in the goose step that is traditional for military displays in Communist countries. Artillery pieces boomed out a 28-gun salute, a symbolic reminder of the 28 years it took Mao Tse-tung and his Communist armies to wrest the mainland from the control of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists...
...Recognition for many was a long time coming. The 761st Tank Battalion, all black except for fewer than a dozen white officers, battled Germans for 183 days without relief. The outfit had to wait 33 years before its veterans could persuade the White House to award them a Presidential Unit Citation...
Phillps Brooks House (One to One Margaret Fuller House); Director of the Unit Test Program, Economics 10: Financial Aid Advisory Committee; Harvard Shuttle Bus Driver...
Nonetheless, there is a clear and present danger that the contract might be rejected by GM's 350,000 union members. The first step in ratification will take place Wednesday, when the agreement is put before a special meeting of the 300-member unit council of local union leaders in St. Louis. If they approve, the accord will then go to the rank and file for their assent. Voting could take up to ten days...