Word: aprils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon to Haldeman, April...
...afternoon last April, in the central Maine town of Dover-Foxcroft (pop. 4,000), Charles MacArthur was standing beside the canal lock that feeds water from the Piscataquis River into the hydroelectric plant of Brown's Mill. He heard a strangely squishy, popping sound. "It was sort of like a baseball bat hitting a rotten stump," he recalls. The bulkhead below the 600-kw generator bulged from hydrostatic pressure and quietly let go. MacArthur (who owns the mill) turned, horrified, to see 100 tons of concrete, studded with steel reinforcing rods, tossed lightly into the springtime air as thousands...
...Atlanta's Fulton County, for example, the commissioners had completed last April an affirmative action plan that would add black employees to the county's payroll at the rate of 4% per year over the next five years, boosting their proportion from 26.6% to 46.6%-the percentage of blacks in the county's total labor force. But when Fulton County Attorney Robert Young read the Supreme Court's Bakke ruling, he told the commissioners that parts of their new hiring plan were illegal. County affirmative-action officers, said Young, "would direct department heads not to hire...
...wealthy investors. Though the White House would now be grudgingly content to see the tax remain at its present maximum effective rate of 49%, the Steiger amendment seeks to cut the rate to no more than 25%, the level that prevailed prior to 1970. The bill was introduced in April by Wisconsin Republican William Steiger, who has attracted broad support with his argument that a lower rate would benefit everyone by stimulating the stock market and boosting capital investment, thereby creating jobs...
...phrase. That is, how to shake the wind out of inflation without tipping the country back into recession. More signs of gathering trouble on the price front arrived with last week's reports. The cost of living jumped another .9% in May, which was as bad as the April rise and translates into an annual inflation rate of 11.4%. Once again, the chief villain was the rising cost of food, although meat prices, the top offender in the past, seem to be receding...