Word: lots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the last-minute spending is for research and consulting contracts, even though a lot of the work could be done more cheaply by the agencies themselves. As the witching hour approaches, Government bureaus also pour out money in grants. The Department of Housing and Urban Development gave about $5 billion in grants in August 1978; the figure in September was $20 billion...
McLaughlin is one of those far-reaching business chiefs who think about a lot more than balance sheets. He is a big gun in the country's most socially aware and alert business community. Prodded by McLaughlin and others, 45 Minneapolis-area companies donate 5% of pretax profits to charity and are active in all manner of civic uplift projects. And so it is not surprising that McLaughlin is concerned much less about snow than about something more universal: water...
...social retard, one bookish wimp and one wealthy, lock-jawed Wasp. For added measure the writers have stirred in a cook who re-enacts John Belushi's samurai routine and a maitre d' who resembles Danny De Vito's dispatcher from Taxi. Everyone yells a lot, usually about food and sex. Adults who sample this show may quickly tune it out to seek some food or sex of their...
...crutches to watch a contest selecting her Israeli lookalike. About the only hosts unhappy over her tour were some members of the diamond exchange in Tel Aviv, where normally frantic trading halted while the golden girl oohed over a 17-carat diamond worth $1.5 million. "She cost us a lot of money," growled one trader on the exchange...
...biggest advance runs in publishing history: 700,000 copies in two printings, of which 500,000 have been snapped up by bookstores. If the huge press run does not sell, Aunt Erma has a remedy. Says she: "Either we're going to have a lot of doorstops around the Bombeck house or we'll mail them out as Christmas cards...