Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...further ease worries about inflation, Carter last week minimized the quarrel between the White House and Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burn over the Fed's tight rein on growth in the money supply. The Fed's policy stands to restrain prices, but at the expense of slower economic growth. Claimed Carter of his relations with Burns, despite evidence to the contrary: "We've never had any disagreements on [economic]subjects...
...recently strained utilities sufficiently to achieve major blackouts here and there. New structures with solar-energy devices have remained almost as exotic as ever. Nobody seems to be considering an encore of the dimmed-out Christmas that marked the ancient time of the oil embargo. This Christmas may well burn record wattage...
...middle played by Gary Grant and James Stewart in films like North by Northwest and Vertigo. A power-company worker who lives with his wife (Teri Garr) and three kids in Muncie, Ind., Roy is engulfed one night by phenomena he cannot understand: searing lights burn him from above, a road sign shakes and twists, the contents of his truck move about in violent defiance of gravity, the needles on his dashboard dials spin past go. Roy is sure that he has had an encounter...
Usually deadlier than the professional torch is the psychopathic amateur who burns once for strictly personal reasons such as jealousy or revenge. A federal study puts 55% of adult arsonists in the burn-for-hate category. In New York, a jealous suitor and two friends have been charged with setting a fire last year in a Puerto Rican social club in the South Bronx. Twenty-five party-goers died in the blaze. The alleged motive: the man's girl friend had attended the party against his wishes. Says Donald Mershon, manager of the Metropolitan Chicago Loss Bureau, which handles...
...example, has won 20 arson convictions based on the federal crime of mail fraud. Griffith relied on an arsonist turned informant: Merrill H. Klein, 53, a self-styled "business consultant" who worked as a "broker" for landlords eager to torch their property. After pleading guilty in 1974 to helping burn down a hotel in Bedford, Pa., Klein agreed to testify for the Government in three other arson cases he was also connected with, hoping his five-year sentence would not be increased (it wasn...