Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newly acquired office chair. Asked a speaker: "What are our new Cabinet ministers to think when they arrive at their offices and discover they don't have chairs to sit on?" A Tanzanian soldier sported the best memento of all: Amin's military cap, which Big Daddy apparently left behind in his haste to depart from the capital...
...growing numbers of service stations around the country rationed sales to $5 or less per customer, Congress began battling over Jimmy Carter's plan to raise fuel prices still higher. Already the strategy is drawing heavy fire from left and right for being everything from a giveaway to Big Oil to a bureaucratic interference with private business to a dangerous new fuel for inflation...
...need less regulation and more development of low-sulfur coal. Solar will grow only slowly, but that is where a lot of R. and D. money ought to be put. Energy R. and D. spending won't help solve anything for ten years, but something may come in big and leave us in a better position at the end of the decade...
...big long-distance rigs were barreling along U.S. highways last week in near normal numbers. The powerful Teamsters union and the trucking industry had agreed on a new master contract, ending a ten-day strike and lockout that drastically curtailed transportation of goods and threatened many manufacturing industries. In all, the union and the industry estimate that the contract will give 270,000 drivers and warehouse workers an increase of more than 30% in wages and fringe benefits over three years. That is well above the Carter Administration's wage-guideline limit of 7% a year. But the Council...
...months in prison, but later got reduced penalties. They were placed on two years' probation and ordered to do full-time community service work until early May. Last week the Fruehauf board voted that when those terms are up the two officers, who have reputations as big profitmakers, may return to the company from their unpaid leaves...