Word: heated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clackamas, Ore. "I'm going to have to change my life-style." Paula Johnson, a suburban Atlanta housewife, has already moved her mother to a nursing home closer to her house, shifted to a smaller car and begun insulating her home. "I'm quite willing to cut down my heat," says Philadelphia Personnel Manager June Rosato. "Shivering a little is the least I can do for my country...
People who heat their homes with oil would get back every dollar that the tax adds to their heating bills. Other revenues raised by the tax 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...
HOME INSULATION. Since an estimated 40% of house heat escapes through faulty flues, ill-fitting windows and porous walls, tax rebates would be offered to homeowners who insulate their residences. The amount: a 25% personal income tax credit on the first $800 outlay, or a tax saving of $200, and a lesser percentage on the next $1,400. For householders unable to raise the cash, utility companies will be required to offer installment-plan insulation programs for their customers...
...Most people share a similar attitude toward hospitals, and so they are unprepared to believe that a medical complex or, for similar sentimental reasons, a university or church can, in its relentless drive to force tenants out of a building, resort to such ruthless tactics as shutting off the heat and hot water on the coldest days of winter or setting loose a German police dog to attack the tenants in the hallways of the building...
...wasn't until I vaguely heard a spectator say "Look, that guy ain't even sweatin'" that I realized what I'd done. Dehydration. Heat stroke bait. A very unhealthy situation, especially with Heartbreak Hill looming ominously down the road...