Word: caps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...workers than the year before. Declining firms that need help the most are thus left out. Worse still, under the Ullman plan, no company may claim deductions exceeding $40,000 or enter claims for more than 24 people (unless the new employees are handicapped or disabled). This $40,000 cap means that only small firms can take advantage of the plan; the nation's major industrial corporations, which are the most important generators of jobs, are effectively excluded. Reason: the committee developed what some of its members dubbed "the General Motors complex." Explained Cotter: "It was felt that General...
...water development projects from the fiscal 1978 budget. What bothered Arizonans most was that the biggest of these canceled undertakings was the $1.6 billion Central Arizona Project, which was scheduled to bring water from the Colorado River to the parched southern portion of the state by 1985. "Without CAP," said Wes Steiner, executive director of the state's water commission, "all agricultural production in Arizona would have to stop." Warned a pecan and cotton grower, Keith Walden: "Tucson will be covered up with sand and become a ghost town within a hundred years." Said Jack Francis Jr., co-owner...
...decrease of 30 per cent," Murphy says, adjusting the gold braid on his officer's cap. "When you consider that half of all people that steal cars are juveniles, then that represents a considerable drop in juvenile crime." There also have been significant auto theft declines in other suburbs of Boston...
...most prodigal of all heat leakers. It can lose 50% of all body warmth. The head has to be hatted. Headgear ranges generally in inverse proportion from price to utility, from the $1,000 silk-lined sable topknot to the $3.95 classic old salt's woolen watch cap, which pulls down over the brow and ears. The Balaclava helmet, invented during the Crimean War and knitted by millions of home-front wives in World War II, is possibly the best solution for unselfconscious urbanites: it costs only $4.95 and completely covers the head and neck. The last word...
Retribution came during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of 1966-69. Teng was accused of many of the sins now attributed to Chiang Ch'ing. Denounced for his addiction to bridge, mah-jongg and all manner of high living, Teng was driven through the streets wearing a dunce cap while hordes of Red Guards screamed curses at him. He was stripped of his party posts, and disappeared for seven years...