Word: addressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only losers. In states where sales taxes are high, avoidance schemes abound. The simplest ruse is the empty-box trick. The customer buys a big-tag item, such as an expensive suit or shoes and makes a deal with the merchant to "mail" it to an address in a state with a lower rate. The merchant obligingly sends an empty box, and the customer walks out with the goods. A variant is to send the purchase to a friend in another state. Rob, an accountant, saved $600 on a $12,000 painting by having the gallery mail it from Chicago...
Though Carter's critics saw an element of escapism in his new zest for domestic travel, he used the trip to address nationwide concerns, notably the need to reduce the heavy U.S. dependence on foreign oil. On his way to Bardstown, he stopped off at the Cane Run electric power plant on the outskirts of Louisville. It was chosen because it is a model of what the President wants: a power plant that burns coal instead of oil and uses expensive "scrubbers" to keep even high-sulfur coal from polluting the air. Facing a crowd of workers in yellow...
...pride, the widow has refused food stamps and welfare. So, when arrested, she was too embarrassed to give her home address. For the first time in her life she spent the night in jail. The next day she was released and the charges were dropped. Said she: "I wish God would close my eyes. I'm so tired of living...
Sincere though she may have been, her own blind faith won few converts. In Chicago, her first stop, her address to the National Urban League included a long litany of Carter's black appointees, each name followed by the refrain "he [or she] happens to be black." The derisive jokes muttered by delegates who found the speech patronizing were capped when Vernon Jordan began his keynote speech by saying, "I'm president of the National Urban League and I happen to be black." When she insisted to 500 guests at a fund raiser in Dallas that "Jimmy...
...greed of Arabs and their own insatiability; they were blaming him for much more history than he should be held accountable for. Still, they were right to judge Carter harshly as a leader. In fact, he seems to have judged himself just as severely, as he suggested in his address to the nation after Camp David...