Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flanked by a posse of lawmen, some sporting ten-gallon hats, Lloyd Bentsen cheerfully introduced his running mate. The Law Enforcement Officers Association of Texas had gathered at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas last week to endorse the Governor of Massachusetts and certify that he is not a patsy on crime. Bentsen, silver-haired and presidential, surveyed the audience with his mild and benign gaze and then said casually, "Mike, have you rented a hotel room here tonight?" Dukakis appeared slightly mystified but nodded his head. "Good. In some people's minds that makes you a Texan...
...House had come under fire over a provision that would have increased on October 1 the price-support level for milk to $11.10 for each 100 pounds. It would raise consumer costs by a few cents a gallon at most and cost the government $145 million by congressional estimate. The Agriculture Department put the price tag at $300 million...
Republicans will crow about low inflation and low unemployment. They'll claim full credit for the thaw in relations with the Soviet Union. And they'll talk a lot about the bad old days when Jimmy Carter was president and gas cost nearly a $1.50 a gallon...
Public-spirited campaigns have been far more effective in Arizona, where the forward-looking 1980 Groundwater Management Act restricts depletion of aquifers and effectively raises water costs statewide. Tucson, which had suffered an alarming 120-ft. drop in its water table, imposed a scaled billing system, charging more per gallon as water use increased. The city's per capita water consumption dropped from a high of 205 gal. a day in 1974 to 161 now. California could use similar conservation laws; in Palm Springs, where household water costs 46 cents for 100 cu. ft. (vs. $1.16 in Tucson), per capita...
...have been a tradition since the co-op's beginning. They are usually followed by food fights. Henry M. Sandow '75-'77 described a particularly huge one, nicknamed the Battle of the Alamo. "We cleaned out the contents of three refrigerators, threw about thirty dozen eggs, dumped a five-gallon can of oil on the floor and overturned the tables. It ended when somebody got the firehose and started spraying everybody--they were all falling down because of the oil. Then we cleaned...