Word: helping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...installed in their cars. Some chatted with other motorists or bought food and drink from enterprising kids working the lines. But growing anger and frustration all too often erupted in name calling, fistfights, occasional stabbings and shootings. While a gas-station owner in Freemansburg, Pa., rushed to help his bleeding wife, who had been accidentally struck by a car waiting in line, other motorists filled up their tanks and drove off without paying. In Levittown, Pa., in an outbreak originally caused by truckers demonstrating against high diesel fuel prices, some 2,000 motorists and thrill-seekers clashed with the police...
...police discovered that a floor board had been cut out of their dilapidated van. Underneath was $5,000 worth of equipment, including intake hoses, battery-operated pumps and a 350-gal. storage tank. Apparently the pair would drive into a station, casually park over an unlocked underground tank and help themselves. On a smaller scale, thieves faced another kind of retribution. In the process of siphoning gas, they often ended up swallowing some of the gas that gushed forth. Cases of gas poisoning were up all over the country. In the Houston-Galveston area, they had jumped...
...guard by the sudden buyer switch to smaller cars. Of General Motors' new X car line, President Elliot Estes notes: "We guessed in favor of the six-cylinder engines. But right now sales are running 60 to 40 in favor of the fours." GM is getting no help from its big cars either. Sales of the standard Chevrolet are off 20% since January; Buick Le Sabres are limping almost 29% behind 1978's pace, and purchases of the Oldsmobile 98 are down...
...markets and much needed capital in return for a steady supply of gas. Mexico is proud and sensitive about its patrimony of oil and gas, but the U.S. could acquire more of it by admitting more Mexican immigrants, giving trade preferences to Mexican exports, exchanging American agricultural technology to help feed one of the world's fastest growing populations and generally treating its neighbor as an equal partner...
...women are neither bearing unwanted children nor turning to kitchen-table abortionists. That is because 76% of the poor women seeking abortions live in the 15 populous states that have used state funds to make up for the lost federal money; many of the other 24% can get financial help from private groups or obtain abortions at low-cost clinics...