Word: doe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offer, they were not apparent. In the Senate, a group of Administration critics led by Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum seemed content simply to badger and goad Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, variously recommending that he either quit or be fired as ineffectual. One of Schlesinger's biggest embarrassments: DOE'S strategic petroleum reserve, which is supposed to be available in times of severe shortage but is years behind schedule and contains less than a week's worth of oil. Pumps to get the crude back out of the huge underground Louisiana and Texas salt domes, where...
...Jane Doe," as she is called in the suit, was on her way to a friend's house in Chicago one evening last spring to watch Holocaust on television. Then she made an illegal left turn that was spotted by police, who turned her evening into a nightmare...
...license. A computer check quickly revealed that she did indeed have a valid license, and she sent a friend who was with her to pick it up at home. But what seemed to be merely an annoying incident took a decidedly ugly turn. According to her lawyer, Jane Doe then went through an embarrassing series of events. She was led into a room by a police matron and ordered to strip...
...each victim. If the suit is successful, a large number of women may demand payment. The A.C.L.U. estimates that as many as 10,000 may have been strip-searched hi Chicago when apprehended for minor violations. Indeed, Chicago Precinct Captain William Connolly admits that the treatment given the Jane Doe who made the illegal turn represents "no apparent violation of long-established department directives...
...Government has eased its controls lately so that dealers may now pass their increased costs for rent on to consumers. The DOE'S new "tilt" clause offers much the same opportunity to the oil companies. Enacted three weeks ago, the measure will allow oil companies to pass their higher gasoline refining costs on to the dealer, thus probably setting off a new round of rises for the nation's drivers...