Word: whose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is an underlying trend toward fascism," says Gerald Grünwald, professor of criminal procedure at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn, "but there is a tendency toward an authoritarian state and a limitation of freedom." Notes Margret Möller, legal adviser to the Christian Democratic Union, whose conservative members push for even more stringent restrictions: "Nonsense, these people, the terrorists and their lawyers, don't believe in our system of justice. That's the deeper issue. If the defense counsel keep to the rules, no one will touch them...
...them among children in the same small school district. Said Dr. Arnold Rubin of the northern New Jersey chapter of the Leukemia Society of America: "It's unlikely that they have occurred purely by accident." Concerned Rutherford residents had their own ideas about the cause. Mrs. Vivian Cleffi, whose nine-year-old son James died of leukemia in 1976, held "Big Business" responsible. Some people raised questions about the quality of the local water. Others indicted the air, mentioning the smells from nearby industrial plants that one woman described as the "Sunday night sepsis." Everyone agreed that serious investigation...
...oceangoing lines would seem now to be the most incautious of endeavors. Overcapacity and underpricing, especially by the Soviet Union, have driven a lot of companies to desperation. Pacific Far East Line has sheltered under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy laws. Farrell Lines has acquired American Export Lines, whose parent company was just discharged from Chapter...
Nonetheless, Malcom Purcell McLean, one of the lesser known captains of American business, has just anted up $111 million to buy U.S. Lines, whose 36 vessels ply worldwide cargo routes. The seller was Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., the New Jersey conglomerate, which now has a cargo full of cash...
...high-stakes business sit up and listen, carefully. His record for earning money is awesome. Starting back home in North Carolina in 1934 with a down payment of $30 for a secondhand pickup truck, McLean built a substantial trucking concern and made millions. With additional backing from Ludwig, whose National Bulk Carriers operates supertankers, McLean founded Sea-Land Service, Inc., which grew into the nation's foremost containership operation. In 1969 he sold Sea-Land to Reynolds Tobacco for about $500 million. Then through his solely owned McLean Securities Inc., he invested in a life insurance venture and real...