Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting lasted three hours, 90 minutes longer than scheduled, as Carter ran through a list of instructions. He called on his Cabinet for "camaraderie, mutuality, friendship and a freedom of expression in debate" and said he would umpire any feuds. He requested proposals for trimming the bureaucracy, particularly the 13,500 lawyers on the federal payroll. Citing his own experience as a businessman having dealings with Government agencies, he complained that these lawyers have too little to do and draw up too many unnecessary regulations requiring "oceans of paper work" by businessmen and local officials...
...glasses and ice formed on the cracked plaster of their tenement. In rural Georgia, three young brothers, Timmy Schuler, 11, Brian, 9, and Kirt, 7, romped on a pond covered with ice that had come South with the Northern winter. Timmy saw the younger boys break through and ran to their aid. All three drowned. In Atlanta, Mrs. Irma May Key, 51, died of exposure, after falling a short distance from her apartment. Veronica Hynson, 22, and her three children died in a fire in a Baltimore row house. The oil tank was empty, and the gas jets...
This time, luck ran out at thousands of factories, small plants and even schools that depend on a vital energy source: natural gas. Pointing to rising consumption of the clean-burning fuel, as well as dwindling supplies, gas-industry experts had been forecasting severe shortages for several winters, only to have mild weather make it appear that they had been crying wolf. But this season, the early warnings had been sounded as far back as November-and suddenly they proved all too accurate. "The past four or five winters have been comparatively warm," said Carl Suchocki of the Natural...
More Zest. By coincidence, the Church Times, semiofficial voice of the Church of England, last week underscored the remaining gap over the papacy. It ran an editorial urging the 79-year-old Pope Paul to resign and "make the way clear for a younger man with more zest." Anglican reaction to the Venice statement, however, was modestly hopeful, and Pope Paul told an audience, "We are all potentially brothers...
...Charlie, 40, has had many close calls in his ten years as a helicopter pilot in the Alaskan bush, but his luck ran out when a sudden gust of wind caught his chopper near Juneau, causing it to crash in flames. Nearly three-quarters of his body surface was charred, and doctors at Seattle's Harborview Hospital burn center had serious doubts that he would survive. Yet, after 30 long months of treatment, including ten operations just to reconstruct his burned hands, Charlie is back in Alaska piloting helicopters...