Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Schausten, an executive of the Bonneville Power Administration, which services Washington, Oregon, Idaho and western Montana. If the drought persists next year, B.P.A. may impose electricity cutbacks-and, in the worst case, rotate scheduled blackouts among the communities it serves. A similar rotation of brief blackouts was imposed on Jan. 17 by Virginia Electric & Power and the Southern Co. when demand for heating during the big freeze-combined with equipment shutdowns elsewhere due to the freezing weather -threatened to overload their systems...
...demonstrated their clout last week by forcing the majority of the 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to forgo a scheduled 5% hike in oil prices. In December the Saudis split OPEC by refusing to go along with its decision to raise prices by 10% on Jan. 1 and another 5% on July 1; instead, the Saudis and their allies in the United Arab Emirates posted only one 5% raise...
...water main had left a puddle that a transit bus hit just as Jones came along. He was sprayed. quit now and take a cab, he asked himself, or press on? Keep going, he decided. Turn on to Pennsylvania Avenue. Lovely morning. Remembering back to the Inauguration Day of Jan. 20, 1969. As an aide to L.B.J., he had ridden up the avenue in the limousine with Johnson and Nixon in back, he and Ev Dirksen on the jump seats. Ah, how life changes. Pump some more. Middle lane is crowded at rush hour. Too slow for a biker. Buses...
...filed by Attorney General Ramsey Clark on Jan. 17, 1969, the final working day of the Johnson Administration. The Government's interest in IBM encouraged several other suits against IBM by rival computer companies (some of which have since been settled). To organize the defense, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, a prestigious New York law firm, began moving a platoon of 35 attorneys to an IBM office building in White Plains, N.Y., for courses in electronics, computer technology, accounting, company organization and business procedures. "In a case as big as this, there are hundreds, thousands of issues," says Cravath, Swaine Partner...
...grew shrewd in the ways of prison life and earned much money dealing in drugs and other contraband behind the walls. McMillan claims Ray sent about $6,500 out of prison from such earnings-and that this money later largely financed his travels as a fugitive (TIME, Jan...