Word: jersey
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...nearly everywhere. On the same Tuesday that Proposition 13 swept to victory, taxpayers in Ohio turned down 86 of 139 school tax levies, including emergency outlays designed to save public schools in Cleveland and Columbus from bankruptcy. Conservative candidates for the U.S. Senate won victories in Iowa and New Jersey by campaigning hard for tax cuts. Twenty-three state legislatures have called for an unprecedented constitutional convention to weigh an amendment requiring the Federal Government to operate on a balanced budget. Limits on state and local spending have been enacted in three states (Colorado, New Jersey and Tennessee), and efforts...
There are practically as many varieties of sheep chicers as there are of sheep. Take Bob Warn and his wife Pat. A 67-year-old retired Air Force officer, Warn moved from suburban New Jersey to northern New Hampshire a year ago, plunked down several hundred dollars to fence a one-acre pasture and started taking orders for next year's spring lambs. Their "flock" of two newly purchased Southdown Dorset crossbred ewes hasn't even been delivered yet. "First I want to learn to spin," explains Pat, a thin, exuberant woman clutching a sheaf of notes from...
...soaring price of homes is also inhibiting many moves. A New Jersey engineer, asked to relocate to California, learned that while his present home would fetch only $80,000, a comparable house within reasonable commuting distance of Los Angeles would cost at least $150,000. Rather than go into debt for a new home, the engineer quit...
...American Navy officer, code-named "Ed" by his Soviet contact, slowed his car on New Jersey's Garden State Parkway near Woodbridge. On the side of the road, at a prearranged spot, he nervously dropped an orange juice container stuffed with documents describing the U.S. Navy's top secret method of tracking enemy submarines...
Through the long, cold fall and winter, Ed drove the New Jersey highways, littering them, on Soviet instructions, with orange juice, milk and peanut crunch containers into which he had crammed documents for Jim. In return, as promised, the money flowed freely. All the while the FBI screened his giveaway secrets -and kept the cash he received...