Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TANGERINE BOWL: Wake Forest (8-3) vs. LSU (6-5)--Upset king Deacons over unknown tigers. Wake Forest...
GATOR BOWL: Michigan (8-3) vs. North Carolina (7-3-1)--A better game than it seems, but then I love the 'Heels. North Carolina (in an upset) 20, Michigan...
...battle is refreshingly straightforward. No ideological clash is involved, just a personal power struggle waged with the vim and verve for which Chicago politics is justly celebrated. Ever since Byrne, 45, defeated Mayor Michael Bilandic in a major upset in last February's primary, she has tried to wrest complete control of the machine from the old guard. She knew how. When Mayor Daley was faced with a rebellious politician, Byrne's in stincts were: "Why don't you cut him up a little bit?" Lately she has been slashing so ferociously at errant machine members that...
Last week the Senate Banking Committee upset the carefully stacked apple cart when it voted 10 to 5 not to approve the Administration's bill. That would have given $1.5 billion of federal loan guarantees, if the company managed to raise a similar amount of nonguaranteed loans. Both liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans on the committee concluded that this plan was too soft and generous; it did not ask for any specific financial sacrifice from workers, dealers, suppliers, shareholders and bankers...
...source close to the police said yesterday investigators are trying to determine whether the fire was a serious attempt to burn down the building and harm Bok or merely a symbolic act by a group upset with something Bok or the Corporation has done...