Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recited from the Koran; the time for execution was approaching. Shortly before 2 a.m., the prisoner, gaunt and ailing, was led from his dungeon death cell to the scaffolding. His hands were tied behind his back. Stepping to the gallows he cried out, according to one account, "Oh Lord, help me, for I am innocent!" Thirty-five minutes later, the body was cut down, taken away to a waiting air force plane and flown to the town of Larkana, 200 miles northeast of Karachi. There, in his family's burial plot, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 51, the most popular civilian...
...other producers are also levying surcharges on the basic OPEC price. Under Carter's plan, the proceeds of the oil tax would be funneled into an Energy Security Fund that would bankroll the development of alternative energy sources such as solar power and coal gasification, help low-income families pay for the rising cost of fuel and stimulate the development of energy-efficient mass transit systems such as rail and bus service...
...message, Carter announced a cluster of measures-some substantial, others symbolic-to help deal with the energy situation. Among them...
...Diebold's sessions corporate chiefs study the successes of other businesses in dealing with public issues and outside pressures. They look at the case of the food companies that set up the Food Safety Council, enlisted the help of a ranking aide to Ralph Nader and now mutually work to agree on a list of food products and additives that everybody could consider safe-before going to the great trouble and expense of putting them on the market. Diebold also has his clients study the National Coal Policy Project. Companies that mine and use coal formed it with environmental...
...death was, it was also something of an awakening for Hanbury-Tenison. He went adventuring again, but soon found it pointless. He bought 600 acres of pasture land and moors in Cornwall, England, but saw little reward in the life of a country squire. Convinced he should help the tribal people he had seen, he joined in 1969 with Francis Huxley (son of the late Sir Julian Huxley), Viscount Boyd of Merton and Lord Butler of Saffron Walden to form Survival International...