Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enough to stir yet another political uproar and add fierceness to the battle already being waged over Ford's first budget. Senator Edward Kennedy was quick to call the figures "shocking new evidence of the total bankruptcy of the Ford Administration's economic policy." Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott shared the clear unease of Republicans when he declared: "We are going to do something about it. That's really the first order of concern...
...concern over unemployment, Congress was prepared to brush aside Ford's objections to an even larger federal deficit. Spending programs began to be cranked up. A bipartisan group of ten Senators, including Hugh Scott, introduced a bill to expand public service employment by 1 million jobs, at an annual cost of about $7.8 billion. In a joint statement, two of the cosponsors, G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits and Democrat Harrison Williams, declared: "The nation is moving at alarming speed toward Depression-like levels of unemployment in terms of absolute numbers-the truly human measure." By that they mean that given...
...Merie Noire and Quartet For The End Of Time by Olivier Messaien; Marilyn Chohaney, flute, Lynn Chang, violin, David Kass, clarinet, Craig Hogan, cello, and Hugh Wolff, piano; Kirkland JCR; 8:30; free...
...Star-News voted to go on a four-day week, at four days' pay, in order to avoid the elimination of 100 jobs. WTTG-TV, Washington's Metromedia outlet, cut its budget by $500,000 this year and laid off a reporter and a weather forecaster. At Hugh Hefner's Playboy Enterprises, six of Out magazine's 35 editorial employees received notice two weeks ago; the company has a freeze on hiring and raises, and Hef himself has taken a 25% pay cut, from...
Antijunta Sentiment. At the invitation of the Caramanlis government, former BBC Director-General Sir Hugh Greene is doing a survey of Greek television and recommending ways to move the medium away from the staple fare of junta days: reruns of U.S. situation comedies. The army still controls one of Greece's two channels, but Parliament is now debating legislation to release it from the military's grip...