Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made a mistake in turning down the offer of the FBI post eight months ago. Bell quickly arranged a clandestine rendezvous with Johnson last week in the dining room at the Newnan, Ga., Holiday Inn. "Nobody recognized either one of us," chortles Bell. At the end of the two-hour meeting, Bell went away convinced that Johnson was prepared to serve for the full ten-year term established by Congress last year...
...with opposition to the new Panama Canal Treaty, Carter explained his position in terms of cold logic, as usual-but almost instinctively, he also reached out for the butter dish. When Ambassador Sol Linowitz called Carter from Panama City to report that an agreement would be reached within hours, one of Carter's first requests was that Linowitz phone the news to Jerry Ford up in Vail. At least three times Carter personally talked to Ford on the phone, then sent Linowitz, General George Brown, and former Ford Aide Brent Scowcroft on a 6½-hour journey to Ford...
Welfare dependency means that for many members of the underclass, the concepts of income and jobs are barely related, if at all. Says Michael Lemmons, 17, who is earning $2.50 an hour this summer as a janitor's assistant in a Watts federal manpower program: "If you keep giving people stuff, that's why they loot when the lights go out. Working is out of their minds. They think everything must be taken...
...most successful Supported Work project is the $4.3 million Maverick Corp., which runs a tire-recapping operation in Hartford, Conn. Maverick employs 350 ghetto dwellers, including 100 people age 17 to 20. Typically, a worker is offered $2.50 an hour, and told that whoever shows up punctually will get $2.67 instead. Anyone who is so much as one minute late loses the bonus for the entire week.'" Morale is high, and last year 85 workers moved on to private jobs. Says Maverick President Dan MacKinnon: "Of that group, 25% have lost their jobs. That doesn't make me feel very...
...Walinsky's home in Scarsdale. When they arrived at 11 p.m., they cut the telephone lines to the house, pelted it with eggs, set off firecrackers, and chanted through bullhorns: "Walinsky, you liar/ We'll set your house on fire." They kept at it for an hour, while the police watched uneasily. Asks Walinsky: "Why do people who claim to want human rights go around like a bunch of Storm Troopers trying to intimidate others from expressing their views...