Word: helping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Andrew Bavas learned that he was to receive an automatic pay increase of $1,272 from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, an unheard-of notion came over him: to help in the fight against excessive Government spending, he would reject the raise. Ex: plains Bavas, 49, who was working under a HEW contract at Northwestern University as an expert on intergovernmental affairs: "I really didn't need the money. I had no debts, and my mortgage ends in two years...
...small measure of what's on the nation's collective mind is the cause that celebrities choose to back. Last week in New York City, the glitterati got together to help buy bulletproof vests for the city's police. The vests are needed-in the past twelve months, six officers have been shot to death in the line of duty-but the financially strapped city claims it cannot afford them...
Carter's plan to decontrol domestic crude-oil prices is a good first step to help the nation shake free of foreign oil dependence and the uncertainties that come with it. But there are misconceptions as to why the move is the right...
Gasoline prices have more than doubled since 1973, a far steeper climb than that of inflation, and yet consumption continues to surge. Gasoline prices would have to climb much, much higher to make a significant difference; moderately higher prices will help a little bit, but nowhere near enough to make that alone the reason to decontrol...
Carter's tax approach will help ensure that many kinds of companies, small as well as large, and industries besides oil will get a chance to test daring ideas. Oil companies should not be encouraged to try to dominate, or monopolize, whole new alternative-energy industries that come into being to compete with petroleum. In such esoteric fields as the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity and the extraction of gas from sea water and oil from coal, companies in other industries?electronics, mining, shipbuilding?have as much expertise as the oil industry and, in some cases, more...