Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hardest hit by the Ford program would be customers of oil-burning electric utilities. These companies are concentrated on the East Coast and in Southern California and rely almost entirely on imported oil, the price of which has gone up fivefold since October 1973. In 1974 electric bills rose 25% nationally,* and even more for customers of the oil-based plants. Some of those plants will be passing along more of the new increase to consumers than others; estimates of imminent raises range from...
Though willowy and beautiful, Bobbie Arnstein was one woman who had made it on brains in the sexist hierarchy of Hugh Hefner's Playboy empire. From a receptionist's job, which she took in 1960 shortly after leaving high school, she rose to become Hefner's executive secretary for eleven years. As his alter ego and chief of staff, she saw to a diverse range of the head Playboy's needs, from matters of substance and budget right down to scheduling his private jet and arranging overtime for the butlers in the baronial 100-room Playboy...
...celebrity in radical circles as a sort of gold star widow of the left. For an Introduction to a book of his prison letters, she wrote a warm memoir of Melville that in passing chided him for his attitudes toward women. But as the radical movement disintegrated and feminism rose, her views about her dead lover hardened. He became a violent sexist who had manipulated her love in large and small ways, including once writing "wash me" on a refrigerator to remind her of her domestic duties. In 1973 she wrote a long rambling feminist manifesto and sent...
...surveys reported at the conference show strong national morale. In late November, following the triple shock of 43% devaluation, Arafat's United Nations speech and the Bet She'an massacre, the number of Israelis who felt confident that they could cope with the dangers they faced rose from...
...football player who once ran 60 yards in the wrong direction in the Rose Bowl? (The University of California's Roy Reigels...