Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...food, bacterial contamination in canned and frozen foods, red dye in anything. The big swing towards "health foods" is an indicator of this consumer anxiety--every supermarket has its granola, three times as costly as the oatmeal on the next shelf. Good eating, once an economic luxury, is a gain becoming a privilege as the price of coffee rises. But can you really give up the caffeine...
...would be refunded to consumers in the same manner as the gasoline tax, through income tax credits and direct payments, but again the credits would not be geared to usage; people who used a great deal of oil would lose money, people who used little would gain...
...women will offer to wed an illegal alien. The couple are soon divorced; the alien wins the right to stay in the country while the American is ready for the next match. If a marriage partner is not available, an illegal alien can use another close relation to gain legality. Gino Ciampa, 28, a hairdresser in Boston, preferred not to wed in order to stay in America. "I wanted to marry for love," he explains. Instead he persuaded his mother to come from Italy to live for a year with her brother, an American citizen. That made her a legal...
Worthy returned to Boston in 1957 and attended Harvard as a Neiman Fellow, but he continued his drive to gain access to restricted countries. While he was at Harvard, a Western Union cablegram informed him that the Communist Chinese government had approved his visa application to visit Peking. He left immediately, without receiving the required State Department validation whose China policy played on the fears of uninformed Americans would never approe his trip. Worthy and two Look Magazine reporters spent 41 days in China, sending back daily reports to an enthralled public...
Eventually, the President's aides will gain that missing Capitol experience. Along the way, of course, they could also succumb to a special Washington vice. Says Angelo: "Thus far, the Carter staff has not demonstrated a thirst for power -but power, after all, can be an acquired taste...