Word: bil
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...million men by about 15,000. The Armed Forces will be able to continue funding expensive weapons programs, but with some stretch-outs and reductions. The budget authorizes the Air Force to spend $597 million on continued development of the supersonic B-1 strategic bomber, plus $1.3 bil lion to buy 96 F-15 fighters (instead of the 108 it wanted). The Navy will get permission to build a fourth huge missile-armed Trident submarine, at a cost of $598.6 million, and to put $725.5 million into developing a new warhead that can maneuver during its flight to avoid anti...
John Dean may have helped expose the Watergate coverup, bul this past summer his Beverly Hills neighbors fell a bil exposed as well. Charging that a second-story room above Dean's garage violated local height restrictions, a group of local residents demanded that it be removed. A case of Peeping John? "Of course not," protests Novelist Gwen Davis, who used lo skinnydip in her nearby pool. "Still, Ihe federal marshals slayed up there," adds Davis, who has since moved. Last week in a Santa Monica court the matter was settled peacefully when the builders of Dean...
...total sales went up 19.6% and their profits 39% from 1972. Both gains were the biggest in the 20-year history of the survey. Oil companies, not surprisingly, posted the largest profit gains, a median 53.3%. Exxon, while remaining second to General Motors in sales ($25.7 billion to $35.8 bil lion) passed GM by almost every other measure: profits ($2.44 billion to $2.40 billion), assets and stockholders' equity. But many other industries did almost as well: paper and wood-products makers, mining companies and textile manufacturers all registered median profit increases of more than 45%. Only nine...
...managed to remain all but invisible: he held no formal press conferences, granted precious few interviews and avoided appearing before Congress. Last week the former hardhat from Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen finally surfaced to detail for a House subcommittee the Nixon Administration's minimum-wage bil−and with that single appearance, Brennan provoked a maxi-split with his old colleagues in the union movement. Said AFL-CIO President George Meany: "We are aghast that Brennan has so completely abandoned the trade-union principles he espoused for all of his life before coming to Washington." Jerry...
Restic will go with the same offensive lineup that he used against BU last week. Steve Sanvely will start at center, flanked by Bob Kircher and Doug Criss at the guards. The tackles will be manned by Tim Manna and Bil Ferry, Jeff Bone, coming off a solid performance last week, will be the wide receiver, and John Hagerty will hold down the tight end spot...