Word: pennsylvania
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...Kraft, 35, appointments secretary. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala, he ran Carter's successful campaigns in the crucial Iowa precinct caucuses and the Pennsylvania primary. He was also the transition staffs political coordinator...
...National Guard, the Corps of Engineers, the Forest Service and agencies of the Interior Department. The Commerce Department was instructed to help business and industries with fuel conservation plans: one possibility is a four-day work week. Meanwhile. state authorities were moving fast on their own. Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp ordered all of his state's schools closed. The National Guard was called out to help remove snow in Buffalo; even a local course in arctic survival techniques was canceled because of the weather. Maryland ordered a drastic reduction in all business uses of natural gas. Heating costs soared...
...graying, stocky union in-fighter from Madisonville, Ky., who campaigned for Boyle in the last election and continues to praise his administration. Boyle, who has been serving out a life sentence for conspiring to murder U.M.W. Reformer Joseph ("Jock") Yablonski, last week was granted a new trial by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on the grounds that crucial defense testimony was not allowed during his 1974 trial. No one knows yet just how this development will affect the election, but it can hardly hurt the Boyle partisans, who, along with U.M.W. conservatives, are backing Patterson...
...bill from Amtrak. As she settled into her seat, the ample Maxine also had a bottle of Taittinger champagne, a "pair of thermal underwear that would stretch around a live oak tree," and a new lowcut, black Inaugural dress. "We're going to tear up Pennsylvania Avenue," she chirped...
Thousands of schools in at least a dozen states, including virtually all those in Georgia, were closed for varying lengths of time. The longest period was in Dayton, which planned a month-long shutdown. Energy emergencies were declared in Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and the city of Milwaukee. Florida's Governor Reubin Askew proclaimed his state a disaster area because of damage to citrus crops. Maryland's Governor Marvin Mandel sought the same designation: 1,500 Chesapeake Bay watermen were frozen out of their oyster beds and fishing areas by layers...