Word: fining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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California energy commission: "It was definitely time to legislate by decree." Stations with odd-numbered pump registrations were required to stay open on Saturday, those with even numbers on Sundays. Police handed out citations to station owners who failed to comply, and a few were given a $500 fine. The weekend openings made the crucial psychological difference. Motorists stopped driving so much to search...
Price gouging can be punished by a fine of $10,000. A retailer in Boston who charged $1.57 for unleaded was hit with a civil suit by federal officials; a U.S. District Court ordered him to roll the price back 70?. Despite such actions, however, black marketeers vastly outnumber DOE inspectors. "If we ever have the personnel and the time to investigate, we could uncover some incredible stuff," says a DOE official. But the department, which is scheduled to have 800 inspectors by mid-1980, needs thousands to enforce the scheduled prices. It has little prospect of getting them...
...Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars defined a hard-hitting, loud, fast rock sound four years before the Ramones hit the road. To make that album in 1972, Bowie set himself up as the glittery, self-destructive androgyne Ziggy. More masks followed, dizzingly, along with more fine albums--Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Station to Station, and a popular if antiseptic excursion into Philadelphia funk, Young Americans. Then it was off into the beckoning electronic void...
...dismissed in six months and instead opted to plead not guilty and demand a jury trial. Self-defense, they'll say, and repeat their case to all who will listen when the trials open in September. Maximum penalty for criminal tresspassing is 90 days in jail and a $500 fine, but no one expects any prison sentences...
...Basically Bach festival gave Westenburg an opportunity to make himself and his performers the whole show -which he rejected. "That's fine for a genius like Karajan," he says. "I wanted people to be able to sample various ways of looking at Bach." So he brought in Rosalyn Tureck for an intensely wrought solo recital on harpsichord and piano. Margaret Hillis, director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, led a sometimes wayward program of vocal and orchestral works that ended solidly on the Magnificat. Harpsichordist Anthony Newman "and friends" sped their dazzling, often unorthodox way through an evening of chamber...