Word: billings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that great, why are we having all these people leaving?" But to improve pay and benefits would be very costly. A wage increase that simply permitted servicemen to catch up with inflation since 1972 (about 75%) would cost $5 billion. Reinstating attractive educational benefits, similar to the old G.I. Bill, would run an additional $1 billion...
Zzzzzzzzzra is actually Bill Holland, a 59-year-old painting contractor who uses his telephone name as an advertising gimmick, telling potential customers to look him up in the back of the book in stead of handing out business cards. The listing yields jobs, but it also brings a few zingers: Holland has received crank calls in the middle of the night from as far away as Australia. And his phone bill often totals over $400. "People making illegal calls from phone booths look up the last name in the book and charge them to me," he explains...
...damnable exception is the weekly paper Le Canard Enchaîné-literally, The Chained Duck-which pursues scandal with all the gusto of a Gallic gourmet tucking into a baba au rhum. These days the Chained Duck is flapping its wings triumphantly, and no wonder: dangling from its bill is the meticulously aloof French President, Valery Giscard d'Estaing...
...were going to try to dominate early and we did it," Coach Bill McCurdy said after the race. "From the one mile mark on we were in good position as a team," he added...
...stop and think again. Nixon wanted above all to stamp out the demonstrators who were impeding his efforts in Vietnam, and the journalists who were leaking state secrets, and the blacks who were rioting and attacking private property--so he sent his most rabid loyalists to prepare a bill to revise the criminal code and beat back Communists who were obviously responsible for all these disturbances--and S1 was born. Why is Kennedy, who bills himself the last hope of the liberals, backing it? If you want to be President you have to appeal to the center and the right...