Word: greater
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, in November of 1967 the Greater Laconia-Weirs Beach Chamber of Commerce had as its guest speaker the former Vice President, Richard Nixon, a loser in the 1962 California gubernatorial election and more recently a Wall Street lawyer. Nixon was aware of his reduced station. He seemed properly humble as he sat at the head table, listening appreciatively to the reading of the minutes of the last meeting. He even grinned at the jokes told by the chairman of the organizing committee for a forthcoming dinner dance, who went into some detail about preparations, and told his listeners...
...Crowned Greater Boston Champions earlier this season, Harvard will have a chance to prove itself against the vaunted Nittany Lions next Sunday when the squad travels to the AIAW Eastern Championships in West Chester...
...netwomen complete their successful fall season Tuesday against UMass. A victory would keep their dual match record perfect and complement victories in the Massachusetts State, Greater Boston Championships and a second-place finish in the New Englands. After Tuesday, the women concentrate on winter challenge matches, Felske said yesterday. "It's possible we will see some people moving up or down," he added...
...each year (FBI 1973); 100,000 cases of incest occur yearly (National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect, 1978). Two-thirds of teenage pregnancies are not planned, because many do not have adequate access to contraceptives (NARAL). And the taxpayer price of supporting a child on welfare is far greater than that of a Medicaid abortion. But the issue that provokes such anger surrounds the fetus's right to life--its status as a potential human being. Anti-abortionist proponents usually take the position that conception is life and therefore abortion is murder and violates the rights of the unborn...
...Crimson sailors also took the Greater Boston Dinghy Championships last weekend in a very close competition. Boston University, M.I.T. and Tufts all tied for second place with 72 points, two points behind Harvard. Briane Keane had two first place finishes, while Will Geffries had "the best racing day of his life," said Horn, taking four first places. Tony Friedrich also won a crucial race in his first major trophy meet...