Word: jersey
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Chastened Mood. Evidence is mounting that both citizens and companies are indeed responding to the crisis-in some cases perhaps too much so. No one is ahead of New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne in enforcing Churchillian measures in a state that is heavily dependent on natural gas for residential as well as industrial heating. Byrne invoked World War II emergency powers allowing him to order home thermostats to be set at no more than 65°. Businesses were given the option of operating at 65° for 40 hours a week or for unlimited hours at 50°. Byrne promised...
...have cut off service to factories. Plant closings, often for only a day or two at a time, have idled 400,000 workers by White House estimate, and the blizzardy blast of arctic air at week's end threatened many more layoffs-at least 300,000 in New Jersey alone. General Motors, U.S. Steel and other large companies kept many operations going by switching from natural gas to oil or coal, but all over the Midwest huge quantities of those fuels were immobilized aboard barges stuck in frozen rivers...
COURRÈGES spilled out a whole locker room of sweat pants, parkas, tennis dresses, beach clothes and mechanics' coveralls. In contrast he showed a jersey dress that glows in the dark and a line of sexy swimsuits, their two pieces placed vertically, not horizontally, and held together by thin strings on the sides...
...Jersey, Governor Brendan Byrne summoned the state's nearly forgotten civil defense workers to canvass commercial buildings and offer advice on how to reduce gas usage. School Superintendent Frank Mastoraki of Bridgeton, N.J., played out an exhausting daily ritual that was becoming commonplace for many school officials. He asked local police to telephone him at 4 a.m. with information on road and weather conditions so that he could decide by 6 a.m. whether to open his schools on schedule. Alternating conditions of snow, ice and fog made roads perilous for students who drove cars or rode buses...
Although state law prohibits term paper companies from operating in Massachusetts, a New Jersey-based firm will open a Boston office in March, the company president said yesterday...