Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ward off that result, more state commissions are holding public rate hearings, denying premium boosts and ordering insurers to specify their reasons for cancellations and nonrenewals. But none of this will lower the price of insurance. As cancellations decrease, the industry will find itself handling more high-risk drivers and paying out more in damages. To reduce their losses, they will be forced to raise premiums still higher...
...prison purchasing office, and whiled away his sentence forging $120,000 worth of payment orders for goods the prison never received. During a three-year term for armed robbery in Nice, he suffered a convenient heart attack and wound up living it up in the prison ward of a local hospital. He passed out caviar to his nurses, champagne to his guards, and threw an elaborately catered foie gras party for the whole hospital staff. Then, one night, he staged an equally elaborate escape: after sawing through the bars of his window (to throw police off the track), Aunay...
...swing a lot of votes. Accordingly, he returned to a tried and true theme: "Save DeGug, save DeGug--how can I save DeGug when I'm trying to save a hospital for the mothers of Cambridge," he roared, recounting how he had tried to have the City's maternity ward moved to the seventh floor of the new City hospital which, he said, DeGuglielmo let Harvard have for "experiments on dogs,...cats...and monkeys...
...playwrights and directors. The goal of the ensemble's activity is to speak to Negro audiences in a Negro idiom about the Negro situation-even at the risk of encouraging a kind of cultural separatism. "We've been very loose as far as ideological manifestoes go," says Ward, "but we are Negro oriented and we don't apologize for that." The ensemble has distributed posters to beauty parlors, barbershops and small retailers in Harlem and Newark, offered tickets at a discount price of $1.50 in Negro areas. Ward has ordered 20 seats per night to be held...
...said President John M. Meyer Jr. of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. "This turn hurts, but those most affected understand the compelling reasons." Complaining that "the fundamental cause of our deficits is Government spending abroad at twice the rate that the private sector can create surpluses," Chairman Ward Keener of B. F. Goodrich argued that compulsory investment controls risk "permanently weakening the American industrial structure." Grumbled United Fruit President John Fox: "The whole thing is very unfair, both to companies and to the countries. Washington always works the business community over first...