Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, bomb threats have become so common (they average five a month; one closed the airport for an hour last week) that teams of experts using a dog can check the entire airport in 15 minutes. Nonetheless, even experienced personnel were extra cautious last week. Passengers who left their bags for a moment to buy a newspaper or take a drink of water sometimes returned to find them seized...
When Ford's hour-long conference turned to the sensitive subject of how critics and cartoonists are picturing the President as physically bumbling and intellectually inadequate, he exposed his more human and attractive side. Fleetingly, he dropped the politician's usual nothing-bothers-me stance. "Some of the things you read or hear...
...blue-collar housewives and the retired. There is also a trend to give the soaps more time for their vicissitudes. Last year NBC, in a push for supremacy in TV's richest market, daytime programming, expanded its two blockbuster soaps, Days of Our Lives and Another World, to an hour each, smashing the opposing game shows and half-hour soaps. Last month CBS followed NBC with an hour-long version of As the World Turns. More of the 14 soaps now on the air may soon go to an hour too. This shift in the length of the shows makes...
...expect we'll see these people begin to move up the economic ladder. They are a very intelligent, resilient, resourceful people." Many now work as filling-station attendants, messengers or office clerks. Tran Dinh Chi was once principal of a Saigon high school; now he earns $2.40 an hour as a part-time maintenance man in Michigan. Nguyen An Minh, formerly vice president of a commercial bank, is unemployed in New Orleans largely because he speaks no English. An ex-general is serving as a headwaiter at a Pennsylvania restaurant. Some jobs offered to refugees have fallen through; when...
Finance Minister Rabinowitz is stepping on lots of toes these days-notably with his proposed budget for 1976, which was approved last week by the Israeli Cabinet after an agonizing eight-hour session. It was the biggest budget in the nation's history-about $12 billion, against $9 billion for fiscal 1975-and it means more hardship for Israeli taxpayers. The budget will barely cover the cost of inflation, currently running at a 25% rate. Moreover, repayments on past debts will consume $2.5 billion v. only $1.4 billion in 1975, and increased military purchases will cost more than...