Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need for cuts to make up a projected deficit of $117 million and balance the budget, as required by law. But her four-year term will begin with a honeymoon -literally. In January, she will marry Investment Banker Richard Blum, who has been her unofficial political adviser for the past year...
...Star Ranch was a legal brothel, and Fran York, its madam for the past eight years, not only ran one of the best little whorehouses in Nye County but was a highly respected member of the community. She helped buy uniforms for the local high school band, she regularly took out an ad in the high school yearbook, and she made donations to the Beatty volunteer fire department. "She's always the first one out there to help," says Benefit Organizer Helen Terry. Adds V.F.W. Member Norm Martindale: "The benefit is not for Fran's Star Ranch...
...also seems certain that those arms talks will be markedly different from the SALT I and II negotiations of the past. In those decade-long proceedings, Europe was always excluded, and Europeans felt that their own security was being settled over their heads and perhaps even bargained away. This time the U.S. will still do the bargaining, but will share the decision making with its European allies for the first time. For the U.S. as well as for Western Europe, this change will intro duce a whole new era of strategic and political cooperation...
...Little Rock, Gloria Wilson, a mother of seven and the wife of a mechanic, dreads the first winter gas bill. She does not heat the living room or dining room of her seven-room home. Even so, her heat has been cut off for nonpayment five tunes in the past three years. Each reconnection has meant a higher de-posit?a kind of poor people...
...offer reduced rates for so-called off-peak usage. Several firms manufacture industrial-grade timer clocks for that purpose. The Tork Corp.'s clock retails for $30 to $40 and is easily wired up by a licensed electrician. Sales of such timers have jumped by 300% over the past two years...