Word: lane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...counties. Many had come long distances at the break of day, and they felt they were important, part of a vital political process. They were thrilled to see their party's leaders. "I don't know how to describe it without getting chills," said Mary Lane, a sixtyish real estate agent. "Most exciting thing that's happened to the party in years," agreed Mary Ruhl, 58, a retired schoolteacher...
Grand Junction, Colorado, a town like a hundred other western towns, stretched like rags on a clothesline down five or six miles of four-lane mainstreet, motels and chain store steak restaurants dangling off the side, was the journey's nadir. Planted in the middle of nowhere--away from the mountains, on the edge of the desert--its only excuse was the conflation of the Gunnison and Colorado Rivers. Like my automobile, the town itself is an escape hatch. Nothing strange penetrates past the jacked-up cars in which everyone cruises...
...long run....When it all comes down/We will still come through in the long run." There's no denying that we can now expect more from the Eagles--they've checked out of Hotel California and they've gained a perspective on life in the fast lane. But at present the band is still groping for a new identity to replace the old sound. Their latest album reaffirms the Eagles as one of mainstream rock's best bands. But The Long Run is, ironically, a good album for the short run--better things are sure to come...
...Lane Kirkland, who is expected soon to take over from George Meany as president of the AFL-CIO, launched a sharp attack on the old 7% pay ceiling, calling a single guideline figure "a mad infatuation with a figure that bears within it the seeds of its own destruction." Kirkland wants to replace the old standard with case-by-case wage settlements. The top business representative on the board. National Association of Manufacturers President R. Heath Larry, argued equally adamantly against moving toward any à la carte pay guide. At another point in the meeting, Kirkland and R. Robert Russell...
...commission, which will be funded by the Office of Management and Budget, also includes Lane Kirkland, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO, television journalist Bill Moyers, former Pennsylvania Gov. William Scranton and Phillip Handler, president of the National Academy of Sciences...