Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...water project, and it turns out that 99% of the water is going to be used for a private industry in a country with serious human rights problems, that would get a negative vote. But if the water is going to a slum area, where people now have to walk two miles to carry water by bucket, that's entirely different. We might very well favor such a loan...
Letters will not so easily go astray. It will be safer to walk the streets because people will not need to carry large amounts of cash; virtually all financial transactions will be conducted by computer. In the microelectronic global village, the home will again be the center of society, as it was before the Industrial Revolution...
...bitter strike that led to a customer boycott; it has been particularly damaging in California, where Coors has lost its leadership to Anheuser-Busch. Coors also suffered under the new competition because it long had paid little attention to marketing, figuring that its popular product would just "walk off the shelves." As a regional brewer that sells almost all its beer to 16 states concentrated in the West, Coors cannot hope to match the ad budgets of the national firms. Even so, Vice President Peter Coors concedes that the family company has to make a basic policy change. Says...
...strikers to pay $20 a day, for up to ten days per month, into the U.M.W. benefit funds. Many miners have grown up deeply suspicious of the owners' reliability in complying with contract provisions and of the industry's grievance procedures. With minimal provocation, miners often just walk...
...days. When the two of them were making The Young Lions, Brando, who was playing a Nazi officer, had the idea that in his death scene he should roll dramatically down a hill and land with his arms outstretched like Christ's. "He does that, I'll walk off the picture," Monty fumed, afraid that Brando would steal the movie. In the printed scene, Brando is simply shot in the head by Dean Martin. Later, however, during Monty's dark days, Brando came to him and tried to help him. "I've always hated you because...