Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lonely Amsterdam warehouse. Then, by chance, one of them spotted a lock on the corrugated-tin wall at the back of the building. The opening led to a false wall, complete with a secret door. As they burst through the hardboard front, members of the 70-man police unit suddenly came upon two soundproof and unheated concrete cells. Inside each one a man, clad only in filthy pajamas, lay shivering on a mattress and manacled to the walls. Three weeks after Beer Tycoon Alfred (Freddie) Heineken, 60, and his chauffeur, Ab Doderer, 57, were spirited into a van by five...
Reporting the plight of Milwaukee's mentally ill. Bernstein uncovered numerous cases of Medicaid fraud by psychotherapists and social works who were billing the government the services never performed. These accounts let its viveral prosocutions, and the formulicat of a point State City Mudioldd prosecutorial unit. This R. porting carned Bernsloin a second-place in the 1982 Pulitzer Prize category for local news over...
Ehrenreich builds a solid and innovative case for the primacy of the male rebellion, founding her scenario almost entirely on economic arguments. In her introduction, she explains why both sexes have been disadvantaged, even oppressed, by the traditional structure of the family as economic unit. It is economic factors, far more than psychological or biological ones, she argues, that have precipitated the rebellions of both sexes...
...Koreas provide the best world example that it doesn't have to be this way, and that wise diplomacy now can correct the wrongs of four decades. Before 1945, Korea was an undisputed unit. But under the two systems of government progress has been vastly different. Per capita income is roughly 1.5 times larger in the South, and GNP is three times as great. GNP growth rate is twice as large for the South, and the North spends as much as 230 percent of its GNP for the military--vastly more than the South. With only half the population, North...
...dispute, over whether the Medical Area is an appropriate unit for collective bargaining, is now before the National Labor Relations Board...