Word: june
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...were asked to choose between four plans designed to lessen the burden of tuition payments for middle-income families. The cost to the taxpayer of each plan was set at $1.5 billion, which is the approximate cost of the tax-credit tuition assistance bill which passed the House in June...
About the Japanese economic growth [June 26], I am sure that most Americans misunderstand the situation. Yes, I agree that the Japanese economy is an export-led one, but every American must also know that the U.S. is a consumer's economy. So if the American people do not reduce their consumption, I will not be surprised when the exchange rate between the two countries is 1 yen to 200 U.S. dollars. How about that...
...White House, Mrs. Carter started out with some eclat, setting forth in June 1977 on a 13-day, seven-nation tour of Latin America. There was some criticism of a presidential wife's playing diplomat, but she demonstrated considerable knowledge of the area and concern for its problems. "My talks saved Jimmy a lot of time," she told Washington Correspondent Johanna McGeary last week, "because he can pick up where I left off." There were other criticisms, though, of such foibles as her creation of a special seal for her trip. Says one longtime acquaintance: "Rosalynn revels...
When Resorts International opened its football-field-size casino in May, gamblers lost an average of $438,500 a day on the tables and machines. By June the daily drop reached $535,000, and security analysts estimate that the figure is now running as much as $700,000 a day, three times the revenues of either Caesars Palace or the MGM Grand, the biggest casinos in Las Vegas...
While Astronomer James Christy was examining photographic plates of Pluto last June-taken with the U.S. Naval Observatory's 155-cm (61-in.) reflecting telescope at Flagstaff, Ariz.-he noticed an elongation in Pluto's image. Checking back on photographs made in 1965 and 1970, Christy found similar stretching, always in a north-south direction relative to the earth. After further measurements, Christy and his colleague, Dr. Robert Harrington, concluded that what they were seeing was actually a moon hi a 19,300-km (12,000-mile-high) orbit around Pluto. The great distance from the earth...