Word: give
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact that Derwinski led groups with such people in them should give us pause. Derwinski owes the American people, specifically the Senate, an explanation before he officially becomes Secretary...
...than a week earlier that a bomb threat had explicitly been made against Pan Am ( flights from Frankfurt to the U.S. The threat had come from an anonymous telephone caller to the American embassy in Helsinki. The tipster said a man in Frankfurt, identified only as Abdullah, planned to give a bomb to an accomplice named Yassan Garadad, who in turn would persuade an unwitting woman passenger to take the deadly package on board with her. The caller, who spoke with a Middle Eastern accent, claimed that Abdullah and Garadad were linked to Abu Nidal, the renegade Palestinian terrorist whose...
Most experts give high marks to overall airport procedures at Heathrow, where officials have for years contended with the possibility of Irish Republican Army terrorism, and at Frankfurt. Others point out that no airport is completely safe. "Baggage control is pretty good at both Frankfurt and London, but tarmac security remains a weak spot everywhere," says an industry official. "A bomb with a timing device could have been put into the forward baggage hold." According to Pan Am officials, security was tightened after the airline received the FAA advisory, but they refused to say what was done...
...traced to the zeal of Weston Birdsall, general manager of Osage Municipal Utilities. Looking back to 1972, when he took over the utility company, Birdsall recalls, "That's about the time OPEC reared its ugly head. We had to do something." Birdsall preached conservation door to door, offering to give every building a free thermogram, a test that pinpoints places where the most heat is escaping. More than half the town's property owners accepted the offer...
Birdsall's conservation campaign still flourishes long after similar efforts elsewhere have flagged. The utility recently decided to give customers $15 fluorescent light bulbs, which use far less energy than incandescent models. While Birdsall's strategies are based on simple, widely known techniques, few cities or towns apply the methods as diligently as Osage does. "Why aren't more people doing this?" Birdsall asks. Maybe more of them will if they come to realize that conserving energy not only saves money but also helps save the environment...