Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government-aided construction projects, the Davis-Bacon Act requires that the job go not to the lowest bidder but to the contractor who agrees to pay the "prevailing" wages of the region, often meaning the highest union scales paid in the nearest big city. "So in rural Maine they'll use the wage scales of Boston, and in Appalachia they'll use the wage scales of Pittsburgh," says Weidenbaum. "But those wages are so far above the standards in Appalachia that frequently Appalachia firms don't bid for the jobs. They can't pay their workers...
Over scrambled eggs and bacon at the White House last Thursday morning, Jimmy Carter broke some important news to the chairmen of the congressional budget committees, Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine and Representative Robert Giaimo of Connecticut. Said the President: "I think it's wise to go along with a lower...
...then there was Lundy. Alone on the floor with Princeton's Brightfield, the Crimson captain needed a victory to keep Harvard's chances alive, at least mathematically. Serving erratically but playing his incredibly solid game throughour, Lundy brought home the bacon after laboring back and forth with Brightfield for more than two hours...
...Scott Walker went up, 3-2, on Jack Cobetto and Brad Dressler, needing to take but two of the last four points to nail down the win. The Elis had other plans, as they swiped three straight points to tie team match at 4-all, then brought home the bacon by winning at number three...
...logic of Hamilton's ambitions dictated that he should have become President of the country he did so much to create; it is just as well that the honor escaped him. When Jefferson once remarked that he thought the greatest men in history were Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton and John Locke, Hamilton replied that, no, the greatest man who ever lived was Caesar...