Word: plowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...again shortly to $190 or more; that is equal to $2,660 a year on a house assessed at $14,000 (which probably would be worth $40,000 on the market). The city is still so broke that it cannot replace some century-old wooden sewers, or even plow its streets properly after snowstorms; two days after a heavy snow last month, many streets still had only one lane cleared. Says Mayor Kevin White: "We are on a course of fiscal suicide...
...Parren Mitchell of Maryland concluded that "racism in the military is so deep, so wide and so effective that we can't possibly cope with it." Frank Render, a black former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Equal Opportunity, observed that in the Defense Department "one must necessarily plow through layers of bureaucracy, but even when that was done, too often bigotry and basic racism thwarted our attempts to help those who are oppressed." Render complained that at the Pentagon he was "treated like a 21-star general." At one point, Mrs. Chisholm was so moved by the angry...
...School graduate, and Richard Missner, 28, who has a degree from the Harvard Business School. They hired an able staff of ten newsmen and imported Harper Barnes, a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, as editor. Early this year Missner bought out his partner and proceeded to plow about $350,000 of his own money into his new property-money that he is now beginning to recoup...
Judd agreed that the people involved in the project--in particular, Smithies and Goodman--have already done similar work. "We need people with the right background who have done thinking in this area," he said. "They don't have to get out with the plow and plow up the ground all over again...
Many major companies, including General Electric, Mattel Toys, Bristol-Myers and Xerox, are gearing up to invest heavily in feature films. Quaker Oats anted up the entire $2 million for the musical Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and is now ready to plow its considerable profits back into new films. Wells, Rich, Greene, the advertising agency, will soon complete its first film, Dirty Little Billy, an irreverent rehash of the Billy the Kid legend...