Word: cash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adulation is being converted into cash: only six days after Connally announced his candidacy, he met the requirements for federal campaign-matching funds by receiving donations of $5,000 or more in 20 states. His war chest bulges with $1.25 million in contributions, more than Reagan has collected. Far more volunteers are trying to board Connally's bandwagon than his underorganized staff can absorb...
Wellston, Ohio, a town of 6,000, 75 miles southeast of Columbus, is short on cash and long on potholes; about 10,000 of them pit Wellston's 44 miles of streets. When former Police Chief Max Downard burst a tire in a particularly jagged chasm, he jokingly proposed to Mayor Harold Souders that the town sell its potholes to help raise the $70,000 needed to repair last winter's wear and tear. After the suggestion was reported in the paper, says Souders, "a woman walked in with a check for two potholes." Then another woman came...
...person to be jumping at opportunity. We are signing a peace treaty, but we don't want to cash in, to call the people to the polls. We still have 2½ years before elections. There is a lot to do. We have to pay much more attention to the economic and social issues in Israel...
Though the ousted leader had a certain genius for accumulating cash, it seemed unlikely that he would succeed in reinstating himself on an island that has been impoverished by his greed and mismanagement. The economy is nearly bankrupt, 50% of the labor force is unemployed, and most of the islanders live at subsistence level. Last week Bishop's government was planning to establish farming cooperatives and to seek foreign aid in an attempt to repair the damage...
...raises is available because federal largesse pays for programs that the legislatures would otherwise have to fund. Government programs will this year enrich state and city coffers by $82 billion, an amount more than double the projected federal budget deficit of $33.2 billion. Thus Washington finds itself handing out cash that is being used to undermine its fight against soaring living costs, which are now climbing at an annual rate...