Word: wrestliing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ROSEMARIE SANSOME was as prepared as any candidate descending on Springfield last May for the state Democratic convention. For her underdog bid to wrest the body's nonbinding endorsement for Secretary of State from incumbent Michael J. Connally, she enlisted a cadre of children to pass out yellow roses and an unusually heavy load of signs, bumper stickers and buttons. They even placed a large scoreboard in the galleries to keep delegates posted on the progress of the Celtics playoff game. Though Sansone's was an uphill fight, the small, red-haired Boston city councilor realized that even a spunky...
Mutual fund companies and brokerage houses, for example, are trying to wrest IRA dollars away from banks and S and Ls by offering investments in stocks, bonds, money-market securities and even oil ventures. Insurance companies are touting so-called fixed-annuity plans that guarantee predetermined annual payouts during retirement. Many investment firms are encouraging corporations to set up programs that allow employees to invest in IRAs through payroll deductions. The Dreyfus Corp. of New York City, for example, already manages employee IRAs for more than 50 companies, including Warner Communications, RCA Corp. and Esmark...
...Bulletin started a morning edition then, the Inquirer might have folded. But instead the Bulletin stood pat while the Inquirer built a national reputation under Executive Editor Gene Roberts. Winning six consecutive Pulitzer Prizes, the Inquirer outfoxed, outspent and outclassed its rival. Roberts even managed to wrest away Doonesbury, the popular comic strip. Startled, a Bulletin editor huffed that the theft was "not gentlemanly." "We never particularly contended it was," Roberts replied. The Bulletin launched a morning edition in 1978, but by then the momentum had shifted decisively. When the Inquirer grabbed the circulation lead in 1980, the Bulletin...
...workers were well aware, said Walesa, that any attempt to wrest political control from the Communists or withdraw from the Warsaw Pact could bring on a Soviet invasion, "so we're not about to violate those principles." But even if the Soviets did invade, he added, they could not force the Poles to work: "Someone can make me do something with a pistol to my head, but I can destroy ten other things when they are not looking." The stocky union leader also revealed his secret for holding up under the pressures of his position: "Life is so hard...
Polish unionists, Catholic hunger strikers, baseball players, air traffic controllers, and postal workers have at least this much in common: without the right to strike, they have few ways to control their own destiny. Any attempt to wrest away that influence should be greeted by a concerted response. And the next time we are inconvenienced or deprived by a strike, we should remember that such actions speak for all those who are having the life squeezed out of them...