Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...textbook recovery, it is usually the valiant consumer, checkbook and shopping bags in hand, who spends the way back to economic health, with industry dutifully tagging along behind. So it has been with the present post-recession recovery, at least until recently. In July, according to the Commerce Department, retail sales fell 1.2%, continuing a softening that began to appear in April. Industrial production rose by a scant .2% last month, the smallest increase in nine months. At the same time, the Consumer Price Index, the nation's principal barometer of inflation, rose .5% in July, which translates into...
Ethiopia today seems caught between the chaos and tragic contrasts of trying to impose a socialist revolution, stitched together from Marxist-Leninist textbook ideology, onto an ancient and feudal land of almost bewitching beauty and vulnerability. The mountainside city of Addis Ababa itself reflects the dichotomy. Its haunting, wild setting amid mist-covered mountains, ancient stone paths and a profusion of roses and bougainvillaea is as timeless and unchanged as its poverty-stricken population, dressed in layers of worn, soiled clothing, sleeping in rag bundles on the sidewalks, and driving small flocks of donkeys and cows through the main streets...
...adjustment to private practice came with deceptive ease. After joining a Philadelphia antitrust firm, David Berger Associates, he saw his $40,000 prosecutor's salary quadruple in a year. He traveled, took high-priced civil cases and decorated his office with marbled burgundy wallpaper made from old English textbook bindings "to achieve the look of a barrister's office in Dickens' day." But the drives of 17 years of public life would not relent. "In some ways," he says of his cases, "I'm still a prosecutor." Albeit without such perks of office as his enormous...
...governor's race is the big one, though. Eight people are running, and they can be split into three categories. The first is the Nobodies--including Ezra Graley, another itinerant preacher involved in the textbook hassles, and Powell Lane, and two other nobodies. There there is the second group--the Semi-Candidates. The Semi-Candidates include Charleston Mayor John Hutchinson and Rep. Ken Hechler...
...district. Opposing William Brotherton, incumbent and senate president, was Marvin Horan. Marvin Horan is a truck driver-turned-preacher at the First Independent Calvary Baptist Chruch of Witcher's Creek, West Virginia. He is presently appealing his three-year sentence for blowing up Midway Elementary School during the textbook issue. I just didn't want to look at the big pink road map after that...