Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...varied programs touched the lives of millions of Americans: medical research conducted by the National Institutes of Health; community health services; drug treatment and prevention projects; Head Start, which gives special treatment to poor preschoolers; plans to retrain workers for better jobs. When Ford vetoed the bill on Dec. 19, the Democratic leaders in the House shrewdly decided against any immediate attempt to override. Instead, they mounted their effective attack on wobbly Republicans and conservative Democrats during the long recess. "We unleashed everybody," says Majority Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill. "Every labor organization, every education organization, every health...
...nine days it hit the most-active list: trading volume one day exceeded 400,000 shares, easily outpacing such giants as AT&T and General Motors. More than 3 million Aztec shares changed hands in January-57% of the total outstanding. The price more than doubled, from $15.63 on Dec. 30 to a close last week...
TIME has not been known for its reluctance to drop the other shoe. In your piece marking the 40th anniversary of the DC-3 [Dec. 29], you say, "Dwight Eisenhower hailed the plane as one of the five pieces of equipment that did most to win World War II." So-may we know what the other four...
...will be more careful in extending new loans, and so some consumers and businesses, especially those with less-than-top credit ratings, will be unable to borrow as much as they want. Indeed, for the banking system as a whole, the current troubles have brought a pause after a dec ade of pell-mell expansion and diversification in which Citi bank and its aggressive, caustically droll Chairman Wriston led the way. The outlook now is for several years of more cautious policies - and tighter Government supervision...
...conclusion of Gulfs case shines almost brightly in such a context. The huge company (1974 sales: $16.5 billion) last year admitted that it had paid $12.3 million to politicians in the U.S. and elsewhere, most of it from a secret slush fund (TIME, Dec. 8). In response, Gulfs board convened for a marathon session that in many ways had elements of a two-act courtroom drama. Act I opened on a Monday afternoon. Twelve of the 14 directors gathered in the walnut-paneled board room on the 31st floor in Gulfs headquarters tower in Pittsburgh...