Word: groups
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...made millionaire whom Reagan admires, a former Oklahoma hillbilly who moved to California and made it big selling autos, in banking and in oil investments. He first met Reagan when he sold the actor a Ford coupe in 1946. Moreover, he was present at the creation, belonging to the group of wealthy California conservatives who in 1965 encouraged Reagan to run for Governor...
French neofascists have apparently had an impact way out of proportion to their numbers, which are quite few by most reckonings. The European Nationalist Union (F.N.E.) is the largest such group, with an estimated membership of only 200. Although uninterested in sophisticated political theory, neofascist street soldiers have found ideological shelter in the work of various writers, known collectively as the New Right, who support such Nazi notions as elitist education and genetic engineering. Warns Ory: "Every society produces marginal people ready to put on a uniform to mythify their delinquency. What is dangerous is a group of intellectuals...
With that, Sasakawa unveiled a patriotic proposal: he would surrender the entire treasure to the Soviet Union in exchange for a group of islands off Hokkaido that the Soviets seized from Japan after World War II and have steadfastly refused to return. Promised Sasakawa, with a chuckle: "I'm ready to talk with whomever Brezhnev-san might send over to my office...
...three, working independently, have been studying a group of genes that are intimately linked to the body's immune response. Snell, 76, of the Jackson Laboratory at Bar Harbor, Me., laid the groundwork with studies using mice. Attempting to transplant first tumor cells and then normal tissue, he discovered that the success of the operations depended on protein molecules on the surface of cells. These proteins, called antigens, have characteristic shapes and structures, but combinations differ from individual to individual. Snell found that the more antigens the subjects had in common, the more likely was the graft to take...
Some of the suits seem frivolous. A group calling itself PORN (Profits of Richard Nixon) charges that under a California law the former President is barred from making money as a result of his own misconduct in office. PORN is asking the court to turn over to the U.S. Treasury all of Nixon's profits from the $19.95-a-copy book, RN, The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. So far, Author Nixon has had to pay his California lawyers more than $30,000 fighting off PORN...