Word: feb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very proud of the recent discoveries of oil and natural gas in Mexico. --Jimmy Carter, Washington, D.C., Feb...
...response to the article "Perils of the Productivity Sag" [Feb. 5], it seems that part of the problem is that wages have risen because of union demands, while productivity has dropped. If people were paid for the work they did and not simply for time spent at their places of work, the degree of output per man-hour would rise tremendously because the workers would try to get more done...
...fissures appeared shortly after the collapse, on Sunday, Feb. 11, of the 45-day-old government of Shahpour Bakhtiar, who had been appointed Prime Minister by the Shah. Following a bloody weekend of fighting between units of the Imperial Guard and pro-Khomeini airmen and armed civilians at Doshan Tappeh airbase in eastern Tehran, the army supreme command abruptly announced that it would withdraw its troops and give "full support to the wishes of the people." The army had been Bakhtiar's last prop; he resigned, as did the members of parliament...
...best tradition of damnum absque injuria, American Lawyer's first issue twits the National Law Journal for omitting Harcourt Brace's legal seminars from its calendar of events, and Legal Times' Feb. 5 issue faults Takeover Specialist Joseph Flom, who is chairman of the Journal's board of editors, for collecting retainers "for doing nothing." Says former Federal Trade Commission Executive Director Basil Mezines, a Washington lawyer who reads them: "I just love these gossip sheets−as long as they don't write about...
Winnipeg is jumping. Airline reservations to the frostbitten Canadian city (pop. 560,000) have been booked for months. Hotels are full up too. The cause of this midwinter madness: the last solar eclipse over the continental U.S. until 2017. On Monday, Feb. 26, the moon will slip between the earth and sun, and progressively blot out the solar disc along a so-called path of totality that begins in the Pacific Ocean west of Washington State, cuts northeast over Canada, then darts off and away toward Greenland...