Word: howard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Borofski said the college has tentative plans to build an 800-bed dorm facility by 1980. "Thank goodness our admissions projections were accurate this year," he said. Last year, B.C. students were moved into quarters at a Howard Johnson's motel when an overcrowding problem developed. No such temporary arrangement has been needed this year, Borofski said...
...excessive, while the gas industry wants immediate deregulation to stimulate new production. Indeed, the compromise had scarcely been issued before it was denounced by a collection of 18 Senators ranging from the liberal Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts to the conservative John Tower of Texas. Said Ohio's Howard Metzenbaum, a leader in the fight against gas deregulation: "It's really an amazing coalition we have put together...
...McClure, an Idaho Republican, signed the conference report only after Energy Secretary James Schlesinger promised him that the Administration would support a $1.5 billion appropriation for the development of a fast breeder reactor on which most of the research would be done in Idaho. That deal angered Tennessee Senators Howard Baker and James Sasser, who support the Clinch River breeder reactor in their state-a project Carter has opposed. Oregon's Mark Hatfield and Arkansas' Dale Bumpers, who oppose any breeder reactor at all, were also soured by the arrangement with McClure. Schlesinger, however, dismissed Senate criticisms...
...modern American family: people who work together rather than live together. Among the station employees are the hip new program director (Gary Sandy), a shamelessly corrupt ad manager (Frank Bonner), and a prissy newscaster obsessed with hog futures (Richard Sanders). If there is a standout performer, it is Howard Hesseman as a fading deejay who falls asleep during his own broadcasts. Hesseman gets so many laughs that even the show's typically effusive laugh track cannot keep up with the pace
...miners want relief under an amendment to the 1977 Clean Air Act sponsored by Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum. This empowers the President, on an EPA recommendation, to force utilities to burn local coal and still meet pollution standards when other measures (like using out-of-state coal) would cause "economic disruption." Whoever finally wins, someone must lose: either electricity users, miners or the living, breathing residents of Ohio...