Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...working independently from A.F.L.-C.I.O. Chief George Meany's 300-member staff, which occupies an impressive stone and marble headquarters near the White House. Politically aware action groups also have their lobbyists in Washington, including 14 that pursue the special interests of the elderly and six that deal with air pollution. Even the Virgin Islands Gift Fashion Shop Association has a lobbyist. Large staffs are maintained by such broader public interest groups as Common Cause and the Ralph Nader organization. Grumbles House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "Everybody in America has a lobby...
...NATO and is a key Western listening post for monitoring Russian military intentions. About three times a month, Soviet reconnaissance planes take aim at Norway's Finnmark province, which abuts Russia's Kola Peninsula with its strategic naval bases and 900,000-member complement of Communist ground and air forces. The spy planes turn back only when challenged by NATO interceptors. At least twice a year, large-scale Soviet naval exercises are held off the Norwegian coast. Soviet submarines, based at Murmansk, glide into Norway's deep fjords. All but one of the latest incursions have been confined to Norway...
...gorgeous floozy jumps in at a stop light. She leers invitingly. He is dumbfounded. She leers some more. He begins to suspect that she has something not quite upright in mind. She smolders. He is within seconds of deciding that a lewd proposition is in the air. She opens her mouth and says, huskily, "It's green." Now he is flummoxed, filled with honest consternation- and intrigued. Can she mean . . . ? "The light," she explains sweetly...
...like to close down the company and start a new one, a move that would allow it to reorganize, terminate its labor contracts and prune the work force. Though such extreme action is unlikely, it remains "a possibility," says Managing Director Mordechai Hod, who was commander of the Israeli air force during...
...Korean War, military bases mushroomed overnight and threw heavy burdens on local school districts, which were expected to educate children of servicemen. In Midwest City, Okla., for example, the number of kids in classes jumped from 285 to 1,500 in one year after Tinker Air Force Base opened near by. School officials around the country lobbied Congress to pass a law granting federal aid in lieu of the local property taxes that the base or the soldiers living there, if they were civilians, would have paid...