Word: summering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial also produced evidence that Scotto, who is paid a salary of $120,000 a year by Local 1814, operated in a style far removed from the grimy docks. Montella testified, for example, that he had built Scotto a swimming pool cabana for free at his Catskills summer home. Scotto answered that he had paid $10,200 for this work but that he had paid in cash. Scotto also acknowledged that he acquired a 13% interest in a multimillion-dollar East Side apartment building for only $26. He dealt mainly in cash, he said, to thwart the continuous harassment...
...dollars. As a result, the Senate this month passed a more modest $20 billion bill that will offer loans and price guarantees over the next five years to private companies to open perhaps a dozen commercial synthetic fuel plants. The House passed a smaller synfuels program in early summer but is expected to accept the Senate's larger bill with minor reservations. In 1985 Congress will re-examine synthetic fuel development and decide whether the new technology's progress merits the additional $68 billion investment that Carter proposed...
...Last summer the House easily passed a bill very close to the President's request. But oil producers traditionally have more friends in the Senate than in the House, and the Senate is debating a bill passed by its Finance Committee that would levy "only" $138 billion in new taxes. Administration lobbyists are now trying to increase the bite on energy companies to $242 billion. A new report from the Congressional Budget Office, headed by Democratic Economist Alice Rivhn, concluded that such action would enrich the Treasury but result in less oil for the country. The study showed that...
With some exceptions, the price of food and most essentials is indeed low, but there is rarely enough of anything that is popular. It is impossible now to buy detergents in Moscow, and meat is in chronic shortage. Even in summer, fresh fruit and vegetables can be hard to find. Most of these "luxuries," however, are available without long waits at the free markets where farmers sell produce from their private lots for inflated prices. Beef and pork go for around $4.07 per lb. rather than $1.36 in the shops, while potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, oranges and apples...
...Kathleen Bishop set up house with her boyfriend. Seven years later, then a Catholic University law student, she was still living with him and looking forward to a summer job with the Justice Department. During a routine background investigation, a question was asked that floored Bishop: "Are you living with anybody?" Her answer cost her the job. The department's rationale: cohabitation out of wedlock is "widely regarded as a sign of low character." Bishop filed suit. Last week the Justice Department signed a consent order stating that it cannot refuse to hire someone solely because...