Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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States and communities are in effect trying to cope on their own. Well before really cold weather had set in, the Hartford city council declared a "finding of public emergency" and authorized city managers to overspend by $500,000 for energy emergencies. Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso called the legislature into special session to ask for $5 million in appropriations and $11 million in borrowed funds to support loan programs to small oil dealers, homeowners and municipalities. She estimates that 40,000 families in the state will need help, mostly to pay oil bills...
...Charles Duncan made public a confusing state-by-state conservation plan that calls for holding 1980 gasoline consumption to about 7 million bbl. per day, just about where economists expect it to be anyway. In an embarrassingly typical DOE bungle, the targets set for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut during the first three months of next year would allow drivers in those states to increase their auto usage...
...tall, poised figure in the Brooks Brothers suit sips beer out of a pilsner glass and chats easily. In a short speech he asserts his optimism about the results in the coming caucuses. But the New England aristocrat (his father was a wealthy businessman and U.S. Senator from Connecticut) turned Texas oilman seemed patronizing when discussing that heritage. Said Bush: "They say I'm a patrician. I don't even know what the word means. I'll have to look it up." He also looks down on Jimmy Carter: "It's a shame for the presidency...
Only the round-robin rules, which allow two losses, saved Widerman from early elimination after an unexpected loss in third round action. With the score locked, 7-7, and only a minute remaining, Widerman escaped from a hold but his opponent, a central Connecticut grappler, scored on a takedown and squeaked through with the 9-8 victory...
Whether they are model drivers or hot-rod hellions, men aged 16 to 24 are usually socked with screechingly high auto insurance premiums. That discrimination could end if an experiment started in Connecticut last week by Motors Insurance Corp. is adopted by other companies. MIC, owned by General Motors, will make highway performance-not age, sex or marital status-its guide to rate setting...