Word: arsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...century, has plummeted to 24,000 as many citizens fled in search of employment. More than 50 businesses have deserted the once-stylish uptown district since open-pit mining began. With the exception of one small bank building, no major construction has taken place in Butte since 1962. Arson has become common as people who are unable to sell their devalued buildings burn them for the insurance...
Will the new TV season feature the same old guns, rape, murder and arson? Yup. But with a difference. This fall the networks have agreed that between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Eastern Time (6 to 8 Central Tune) is to be "family time," when Mom, Pop, the kids and Rover can cluster round the tube assured that they are not going to be shocked or scared. The very notion summons up classic adventure stories and young people's concerts. Is TV finally beginning to grow...
Gateway Project may seem a quiet, unremarkable little operation. In fact, however, the 60 to 70 clients now live under a reign of fear-four inexplicable cases of arson so far and one of murder...
...Arson Mystery. The mystery started last February with what seemed to be an accident. Fire suddenly swept Gateway's $110,000 main building and also wrecked some $60,000 worth of equipment the clients were assembling. Yuba City fire investigators said the blaze was apparently a case of arson, but they could not explain it. Gateway Director Donald Garrett, 43, a jovial, bearded man who weighed a jovial 300 lbs., moved all of Gateway's work to a smaller building that housed the upholstery project...
...looming budget deficit of as much as $1 billion, as well as the immediate cash-flow pinch, Beame offered an $11.9 billion "crisis" budget for fiscal 1976 that would be balanced by laying off about 50,000 city employees, including police and firemen at a time when crime and arson are ominously rising. With inflammatory rhetoric that hardly squares with his image as a mild-mannered bookkeeper intent on keeping the peace in New York, Beame lashed out in his budget message at his chosen scapegoat: the city bankers, no longer willing to fund the city's debt, whom...