Word: filled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...workers. A better compromise, suggested by Harvard Economist Martin Feldstein, would be for the Government to subsidize minimum-wage payments to the youthful unemployed. Directed specifically to the underclass, the program would allow businessmen to pay a fraction of the cost for jobs that they might otherwise refuse to fill. Another wise Government investment would be to shift some federal funds to more and better mass transit, which, beyond all its benefits to the environment, would give the underclass access to all the new job opportunities in the suburbs...
...Boys: "His music was a great inspiration to us. His personality was a great inspiration to us. He was a fine gentleman." Meanwhile, radio stations canceled regular programming and even commercials to play lengthy homage to the fallen king. In Boston a fan lent his own Presley collection to fill the gaps in one station's library. Outside the Las Vegas Hilton, the flag was lowered to half-mast. Instant cottage industries in Elvis T-shirts blossomed. Stores everywhere sold out of Presley records, as if one spin on the turntable would keep him alive forever...
...getting laws passed to protect them from being arbitrarily closed by the oil companies. In addition, Congress is now considering legislation that would curb the oil companies' freedom to end leases. Such measures will ensure the survival of a fair percentage of full-service stations. To help fill the need created by the demise of many others, a new type of business is springing up: auto service centers that sell no gas but concentrate instead on providing auto repairs and parts. For example, Sears, Roebuck and J.C. Penney both operate a string of such centers nationwide. Yet hard realities...
Like H.L., Ray intends to concentrate on exploration. As he explained to TIME Correspondent George Taber, "We have a unique niche to fill. We're big enough to look for oil anywhere, but small enough to act fast. We don't have to go through five layers of executives to find a vice president on vacation in the Bahamas to get a decision." One example: when a partner in a North Sea drilling operation off Scotland last year decided to sell out, Hunt Oil purchased his 15% interest. "In the space of one week we bought...
...from the Louvre (Max von Sydow), who believes that the recovery of a few life-enriching shards of history and art is well worth the loss of hundreds of Legion and Arab lives. "We're both in the grave business," sneers Hackman. "You dig them up and I fill them in." Later, Von Sydow seems to lose the thread of the argument and takes to sitting in corners and gazing hungrily at Deneuve...