Word: dones
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congress so far has done nothing to ease this new burden by approving either Jimmy Carter's request for $400 million for special low-income assistance in paying fuel bills or his proposed windfall-profits tax, which budgets some $1.2 billion in additional help. As a result, states are moving on their own. Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode Island are all looking into setting aside funds to provide heating money to the needy. In Virginia, Winchester Memorial Hospital's emergency-room staff is studying the treatment for hypothermia, caused when severe cold, combined with poor nutrition, makes body temperature...
...bankers, politics and aid. A banker has got to look at it cold turkey. He's got to look at minimum operating capital requirements and the debt-to-equity ratio. At the moment the bankers say, "We think we have done all we can." Well, we don't think they have. In Washington they ask me: "You won't come back for more money, will you? Once we do it and help you, don't come back a second time." Well, I'd rather not go to Washington at all; I'd rather figure...
Though most women quit work earlier than Jacobson and Cook, indications are that not much time is being lost because of pregnancy. A 1977 Defense Department study showed that Army women lose an average of three working hours per month because of pregnancy. A Navy study done the same year found that women lose less time than men, partly because of the male penchant for alcohol, drugs and general roistering. Females miss an average of 4.22 days a year, compared with 7.03 for males...
...once I and most of my colleagues understood the significance of what we had heard. In the immediate recess I asked for, my aide, Winston Lord, and I shook hands and said to each other: "We have done it." Haig, who had served in Viet Nam, declared with emotion that we had saved the honor of the military men who had served, died and suffered there...
Nixon flashed back: "If the other side stays on this track and doesn't go downhill tomorrow, what you have done today is the best birthday present I have had in 60 years...