Word: finding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...formal program is obviously valuable. But like women at their first consciousness-raising session, the mayors are utterly delighted to find other people who share, and above all, understand their problems. As they chat they soon find themselves finishing each other's sentences like old friends. Paul Doutrich of Harrisburg, who looks a bit like bug-eyed Comedian Rodney ("I don't get no respect") Dangerfield, learned about the disastrous doings at nearby Three Mile Island from an enterprising Boston radio reporter who called long distance to check out the rumor of imminent nuclear disaster...
...million, to around 7 million late next year. The inflation is being fanned and the recession worsened by large OPEC oil price boosts that underscore the debilitating U.S. dependence on imported petroleum. Carter was earnestly aware, if the people of the U.S. were not yet, that the nation must find some way to start breaking that dependence if it is to have any chance for longterm, noninflationary economic growth...
...hard to find since it sports Georgia license plates and a JIMMY CARTER FOR PRESIDENT bumper sticker. The police immobilized the car by applying the so-called French boot (a device that prevents the car from moving) to the left front wheel. Their reason for putting a grip on Ham was Jordan's failure to pay $110 worth of parking tickets he has accumulated since last August. His violations: parking illegally during rush hour, in front of a fire hydrant and twice in no-parking zones. It was the second booting for Jordan. The first was in December...
...pending U.S.-Soviet accord. On only eleven occasions in U.S. history has the upper chamber rejected a treaty. A repudiation this time, after nearly seven years of painstaking negotiations, would severely strain U.S.-Soviet relations. The challenge to the Administration during the corning months will be to find a way to satisfy the concerns of enough Senators to get the treaty passed without altering it so much that Moscow will insist on reopening the talks...
...highest state court set him free because his second trial constituted double jeopardy. Fraiman, who is considered a hard-working judge by his colleagues, still insists that his actions were justified. Said he: "If you check out my reputation for putting in long hours, you'll find I'm the first in chambers every morning and one of the last to leave every night...