Word: summers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Memory," and "Blue Christmas." It's well-known that slow numbers are totally worthless, except for high school kids who need a cheap feel at the dance Saturday night to get them through the week. Today's high schools are too busy playing the Bee Gees and Donna Summer to waste time on Robert Gordon...
Looking ahead, Deputy Secretary of Energy John O'Leary told Congress last week that gasoline supplies this summer are likely to fall only 3% to 4% below 1978, and might equal last year's level. That would still leave a shortage, since some 3% more cars, trucks and buses are roaming the open road now than a year ago. But the most pressing problem may be shifting from gas to diesel fuel. Oil companies are dribbling out to distributors only 55% to 85% as much diesel fuel as a year ago. Aviation fuel supply is also tight...
...against the law for an Omani to wear spectacles or ride a bicycle. In the whole country there were only two post offices, three miles of asphalt road, one 16-bed hospital and three primary schools. Air conditioning was unknown, even though the temperature frequently reaches 130° in summer...
...more interested in advancing by compromise than confrontation. After whining a seat in Congress from an affluent and largely Republican district of Tulsa in 1972, he was assigned to the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee in 1974. When the tax-cut bill bogged down in the committee last summer, Chairman Al Ullman asked Jones to see if he could find a compromise. Jones pieced together a combination of general tax reductions and capital-gains cuts that won the committee's endorsement. When the legislation came to the House floor, he led a coalition of center-right Democrats that...
...columns for which he won the Pulitzer dealt with tax reform, the ever shorter life spans of trends, inflation, the difference between serious and solemn, loneliness, fear, dying, a boyhood summer, Norman Rockwell and the death of New Times magazine...