Word: summer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter is not only fighting for unfinished bills that have been placed before Congress but is even reviving legislation that his opponents thought they had killed. He and Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joe Califano decided to resuscitate the hospital cost containment bill, which was suppressed in committee last summer by pressure from the medical lobby. Carter probably figures he has nothing to lose politically since the public is angry about inflation in general and about soaring medical costs in particular. In August, hospital costs rose .9%, second only to the 1.1% leap in gasoline prices. Carter originally asked...
...judge ordered the Justice Department last summer to hand the tape transcripts over to him. The FBI taped the conversations in Patriarca's office, and has since conceded that the electronic eavesdropping was illegal...
Harvard's negotiators have held to a hard line throughout the contract talks this spring and summer, refusing to bend on most issues. Last week's strike vote was as much a bargaining tool as an expression of their anger and discontent with the University's intransigence. The kitchen workers are meeting this week to spell out the terms they would like to see in a renegotiated contract, but there is little hope that the University will display the flexibility that most of the workers hope for and Harvard has made every effort to discourage them. The University's chief...
Welch, the classy flame-thrower who almost single-handedly put Los Angeles back in the pennant race in the heat of the summer, chucked his aspiring balls for 3 2/3 innings of no-hit ball until pinch-hitter Jerry Martin touched him for the Phils' only four-bagger in the last half of the ninth...
Cohan added that the Lampoon had sent its cover photograph of Travolta from its 1978 summer issue, titled "Journal of the Mind," along with its invitation to the star of "Saturday Night Fever...