Word: connessed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington becomes one big political beehive with the approach of a presidential year," says Fentress. "Everything becomes timed and tooled for Election Day. The rumors get wilder than usual and the ante is raised in that perpetual con game between reporter and news source." The election is 14 wearying months off and there will be plenty of confetti, motorcycles and other hazards along the way. But for those who cover and write about politics, happy times are here again...
...plant's critics, opposing Con Ed's request, charge that Indian Point No. 2 will wreak ecological havoc on the Hudson and decimate its fish population. They say that the company's first nuclear facility, Indian Point No. 1, has been killing striped bass, perch and other species since 1963. According to the Hudson River Fishermen's Association, the nuke was directly responsible for the death of between 310,000 and 475,000 fish in a six-week period last year alone...
Lockheed's supporters made an impassioned case. The company, they con- tended, had been victimized by bad luck. It had poured $900 million into developing a big new superjet, the 250-passenger TriStar. But its engine supplier, Britain's Rolls-Royce, had encountered such rough weather with the contract that it had to be taken over by government-appointed receivers. Lockheed had been financially weakened by problems with military cost overruns and, after Rolls-Royce went under, Lockheed's bankers refused to grant it more credit without a federal loan guarantee...
...other 25 judges who spent a day as mock convicts in Nevada State Prison last summer, Plummer Shearin of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Md., came away shaken by the experience. But he saw a way to help at least one of the real prisoners. During seminars with "con-sultants," he had met and been impressed by Thomas Eisentrager, 48, a lifer. Checking further, Shearin found that Eisentrager was also highly regarded by both prison officials and fellow convicts for his thoughtful views on penology and probation, his reliability in prison jobs and his efforts at self-rehabilitation. Trouble...
...Long Boy overreaches. Once, he tried to sell a mean-eyed mountain bootlegger some of his own booze, and had to make it to the state line in a mighty hurry. But the Prays' illicit little empire grows and grows, until they join forces with a big-time con artist in an elaborate plot to pass Addie off as a missing New Orleans heiress...