Word: annual
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...London-based organization Amnesty International has earned a reputation as the world's public conscience on matters of political repression. Last week the conscience spoke again, with a wide-ranging, 219-page annual report on 96 countries, offering little cause for optimism. The report's major findings: the torture of political prisoners is nearly universal, the sinister practice by some governments of "disappearing" political opponents (arresting them clandestinely) is on the rise, and there has been a global increase in political murders...
...name is Hallie Martin. She is played by Jane Fonda. She is a TV newshen, very chic, and ambitious for a big story, though looking for it in an unlikely place, the conglomerate's annual meeting at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas...
...steel, utility, and other pollution-heavy industries figure that they will save 10% to 35% of their compliance costs. Du Pont predicts that the bubble policy will reduce annual pollution-control expenses at its 52 largest plants from $136 million to $55 million. Big companies have estimated that environmental control accounts for 77% of their federal regulatory costs...
...inner-city school systems, Chicago's has long lived with deficits caused by expensive "special education" programs, as well as soaring payroll and energy costs and time lags in getting reimbursements from state and federal governments (such government payments make up 60% of Chicago's $1.4 billion annual budget). Chicago's schools began to lose their delicate financial balance after plans unexpectedly fell through last month to borrow $124.6 million by selling financial notes to banks and other investors. Analysts at Moody's Investors Service, which rates the quality of investments like the school board notes...
Combining quick skating, skilled puck maneuvering and powerful slapshots, the Huskies demonstrated the brand of hockey that has made them annual tough competitors...