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Word: helpfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made me realize why J. Edgar Hoover had FBI men do his repair work. Since bugs or bombs could have easily been planted by repairmen, wasn't it safer and more economical for loyal employees to do the work? An alternative would have been to hire outside help and assign a loyal agent to watch each repairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 20, 1978 | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

Dukakis requisitioned every available snowmobile, four-wheel-drive vehicle and truck, and mobilized some 20,000 state workers, 4,000 National Guardsmen and 300 federal troops, some from Georgia, North Carolina and Texas, to help clear the snow. One of the first tasks was to open a runway at Logan International Airport so that the Army could fly in additional front-end loaders, dump trucks and emergency electrical generators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Blizzard of the Century | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

Califano presides over $182 billion, 36% of the federal budget. There is a certain clear message in those figures. Mayors and Governors now hover like bees around Califano. Welfare and school money and Social Security benefits help ease the local burdens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Obfuscation? Dumb Insolence? | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...becoming the most capable. True, the time is right for him and those very human problems in which he deals. But it is also true that he is something special. He cares. "I want to show people that these social programs can be run right, that they can help those who need help," he says."I want to show people that you can manage this place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Obfuscation? Dumb Insolence? | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

Weiner has already set up a makeshift office in the Marco Polo Resort on Collins Avenue, where many of Miami Beach's hotels are clustered. Under the banner of a LET'S HELP FLORIDA committee, the campaign to collect signatures will begin in two weeks, with a July 31 deadline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: High Stakes in Miami Beach | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

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