Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after more than a week of excavations, only a shell of Gacy's house remains-just the outside walls, roof and some support beams. "We are looking for any scrap of evidence-a ring, a belt buckle, a button-that will help us to identify the victims," says Dr. Robert Stein, Cook County medical examiner. Gacy cannot help with most of them because he never knew their names. He does recall Robert Piest: he was thrown in the river, and his body has not been found. Gacy-whose confession, if true, would make him the worst mass murderer...
...wooed the moderates, Sadat continued to give the back of his hand to Arab radicals. Egypt, said he, "will not pay attention to the diatribes and shallow viewpoints of the rejectionists." Sadat knows that the radicals alone cannot make war against Israel; he is also convinced that they cannot help the Palestinians as long as they refuse to enter the negotiations...
Whoever the winner turns out to be, he will need all the help he can get. Though Algeria was able to float $1 billion in loans during the six weeks that Boumedienne lay dying, its foreign debt now totals a staggering $14.7 billion. The President's ambitious program of industrialization, especially the largely automated natural gas plants, provided too few jobs for a population that has grown from 12 million to 18 million since he took over. In foreign affairs, Boumedienne lost some prestige in the Arab world by backing and providing bases for the Polisario rebels, who seek...
...this has put the Carter Administration in the welcome but confusing position of having to do an about-face on gas policy. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger still wants industrial and commercial users to switch to coal, which is by far the nation's most plentiful fossil fuel. To help alleviate the gas glut, however, he would also like any user that has already disconnected from gas and shifted to fuel oil to switch back...
Detroit's automen tooted last week that they intend to raise production in the first quarter by about 7.5% over the high levels of a year ago and that this should help keep the economy humming along. But while Americans are buying a lot of cars, they are also buying too many big, fuel-thirsty models, and the auto marketers are trying to swing sales toward smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles...