Word: spending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Christmas. The day He was born. Santa Claus. Peace on Earth, goodwill toward people, spend money. Want to drown out those obnoxiously cheery-faced little carollers outside in the street? Try playing some records. We went sleighing over hills and dales, to grandma's and the North Pole, to find the best Christmas albums for you. And we found them in a stocking over a big fireplace somewhere in Greenland. But we lost them. So we reviewed these albums instead...
...year. Even odds says some kid--whose father is in jail because they say he killed his wife's boyfriend who is not really her boyfriend because she is actually having an affair with her husband's sister--is discussing with his good-hearted grandfather where to spend the holidays. The grandfather is a doctor. Everybody on soaps is a doctor. And every single room has tacky Christmas decorations, not-so-subliminal advertising to move those new zip-up Totes (from the last commercial) right off the shelves...
Somehow the 'toons seem' less offensive than the garbage that is targeted at the over-six set. Believe it or not, millions and millions of people will spend the evening hour of 8 to 9 on Dec. 8th in front of an electric box that emits something called the "Pat Boone and Family Christmas Special." For anyone still in possession of his lunch, ABC will again try to make you lose it with the "Donny and Marie Christmas Special," Dec. 14th at 8 p.m. The one hope for decency will come on Christmas Eve, when ABC has a special Christmas...
...Massachusetts Department of Public Works will spend approximately $358,000 to place "No Right Hand Turn on Red Light" signs at intersections, a source said yesterday...
...different from or better than Carter's but only an array of me-too remedies that are eclectic yet oddly limited. The common thread that winds through nearly all is that Government can help the most by meddling the least. The new fashion for 1980 will not be spend and spend, elect and elect, but cut and trim and hope for the best. A preview of the leading challengers' economic plans...