Word: circuited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seith has depicted Percy as a do-nothing Senator who spends most of his time on the Georgetown cocktail circuit and tries to hide an "abysmal" voting record. Charged Seith: "He speaks out of both sides of his mouth." By criticizing the sale of jets to Saudi Arabia, Seith hopes to gain support from Jews. He has also been running an unfair advertisement on Chicago's black radio stations implying that Percy approved the racial jokes that cost former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz his job in 1976. The ads do not mention that Percy himself had called for Butz...
Today, Barber sports a short haircut; his dress is conservative; his circuit, lectures. the Peoples Bicentennial Commission is now the Peoples Business Commission; more sophisticated economic arguments have replaced the shallow demonstration-oriented approach. And for the first time Barber and Rifkin offer more than just a passing look at events and issues. They retain the mass appeal outlook--their book went directly into paperback, their language is lively, and their ideas vividly expressed. But the end product is not a fleeting rehash of old ideas presented in a new way. Instead The North Will Rise Again offers carefully thought...
First the Yankees used Graig Netttles's glovse to short circuit Los Angeles in Game 3. The came a whacky basepath controvesrsy taht supplied a key run adn led New York to victory in Game 4. Finally, in Sunday's fifth contest, the roof fell in on the Dodgers as New York sprayed 18 hilts around Yankee Stadium and Thurman Munson drove in five runs in a 12-2 rount...
...year on the Daniels case. A retired Teamster named John Daniels unexpectedly found himself bereft of pension benefits because of a three-and-a-half month layoff in his 20 years employment. Daniels sued, maintaining that the pension was an investment, and that he had been defrauded. District and circuit courts have upheld Daniels against theTeamsters. The Labor Department lined up the the Teamsters, while the securities and Exchange Commission sided with Daniels. If the Supreme Court rules that, indeed, a pension is an investment for the participant, then the next logical step will be that the individual pension beneficiary...
Where music and dancing and painting are concerned, though, New York City's Hispanics are anything but passive. Salsa Bandleader Eddie Palmieri, 41, has become a latino superstar who packs halls across the U.S. No fewer than 169 recognized bands regularly tour New York City's circuit of Latin clubs and dance halls. Cityarts, an artists' collective now funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, mobilizes painters to create ghetto murals. Last March El Museo del Barrio, a Puerto Rican cultural museum begun in 1969, opened new quarters on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue...