Word: allotments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nursing home when her daughter, with whom she had always lived, married late in life. To her own surprise, she is happier than she was before, taking great pride in reading to and helping her older roommate. A difficult decision of the middle-aged is how to allot their resources between children and parents and still provide for their own years of retirement, which may well extend for two decades...
...proposal to allot $600 to help the state root out a blight called pine blister rust went down because, as one man said: "We can do it better, and for nothing." One item on the "warrant," or agenda, suggested replacing Mount Vernon's 22 conventional street lights with 17 mercury-vapor lights to provide better illumination. When the first selectman explained that the change would increase the monthly electric bill by $25.90, a resident shouted: "Forget it!" It was unanimously voted down...
Little of Europe's new advertising creativity is to be seen on television. Government-owned stations generally allot commercial time sparingly and subject messages to rigorous regulation. Accordingly, magazines and newspapers share two-thirds of Europe's advertising billings. Some major publications, among them the Sunday Times, Paris-Match and Stern, have achieved the position of rationing space among a long list of waiting advertisers...