Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through practice, and points to Denver's Bobby Jones and Buffalo's Gus Gerard as "exceptional jumpers for white guys." Yet he adds that "they aren't compared with other guys like myself who can jump and do something else while they're in the air...
...patented tumbles are the best since those in silent movies. One of the program's high points is a put-on of the Hertz Rent-A-Car ad featuring high-stepping Football Star O.J. Simpson. Low-stepping Chevy looks like a disintegrating Tinkertoy, ricocheting through a crowded air terminal on his way to the parking...
...power plants are forced to install scrubbers, they will either drag their feet as long as possible on converting to coal or opt for nuclear power instead. It is difficult to see how coal usage could be increased as much as Carter wants without the scrubbers, unless clean-air laws are relaxed-and that, of course, would bring the environmentalist lobby out in full...
COAL producers stand to mine rich profits out of the energy plan. The President has called for increasing production from 665 million tons a year at present to 1.1 billion tons by 1985. Even so, coalmen are far from happy. They worry that tough clean-air standards will divert utilities to nuclear power and new strip-mining regulations will inhibit output. Mine operators are concerned that the surge in demand will drive up prices and Government allocation plans and price controls could become necessary...
...City is non-religious). Responsible church groups, Kelley notes, have long advocated taxation of profit-making businesses owned by religions. But churches themselves do not generate wealth, he says, and thus "do not need to explain why they are not taxed any more than do the birds of the air...