Word: piped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leader of the grass-roots campaign behind the amendment is Howard Jarvis, 75, a jowly, pipe-smoking ex-businessman who has made tax cutting a personal crusade for the past 15 years (he claims to have blocked 33 different local bond issues). "People just can't handle the burden any more," says he. "This is a government of, by and for the people, not the Government." A year ago, he and his Los Angeles-based United Organization of Taxpayers fell short by 1,200 names of the 500,000 signatures needed to put their property-tax amendment...
...drilling will give a hypodermic to some ailing economic areas. Pipe, drilling mud and other necessities are being shipped to Davisville, R.I., which will serve as a supply station. The oil companies plan to quarter their drilling crews in Atlantic City. There will be about 50 men to a rig, each earning $700 to $800 a week, and their spending power will create new jobs in hotels, restaurants and stores. "It will be a tremendous advantage for the Atlantic City area," says Louis Dalberth, head of the Southern New Jersey Development Council. "Super," echoes Delaware Governor Pierre du Pont...
...steam pipe in Dillon Field House and flooded a boiler room yesterday, but sports equipment stored there was undamaged, a Buildings and Grounds (B & G) spokesman said yesterday...
BOMBS EXPLODE IN BELFAST and young children, who know little of the ways of their parents, die. It happens all too often in Northern Ireland, a bleeding sore of a place where a British accent is the law and religion is the best excuse around for killing your friends. Pipe bombs, savage little devils that will indiscriminately swallow up Protestant and Catholic legs, are very popular in Ulster now, but they do not have many friends. Bombs like that maim everyone they meet, and the people who throw them do not apologize. They are not supposed to; they are just...
...asked by President Carter to become the third director in the FBI's 43 year history, and he accepted. Explaining why he would give up his judgeship for the bureau's top post, he said: "I'm an old Navyman. I heard the bosun's pipe and the words 'Now hear this...