Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, Wisconsin and Massachusetts encourage job sharing among state employees. The practice will grow if the Federal Government does the same. Last July the Senate approved a bill by California's John Tunney requiring that 10% of all federal job slots be sharable within five years. A twin proposal by California Representative Yvonne Burke languishes in a House subcommittee, but Nelson hopes that his hearings will spur the White House into activity. "I think the Government ought to be providing more creative leadership," he says. "With 2.8 million employees, we're in a position...
...Yankees went on to win the game 11-4, but their inaugural moments were a fright. Starting Pitcher Rudy May walked the first Minnesota Twin to face him on four pitches, and then saw his fifth knocked over the left-centerfield fence by Dan Ford for the new stadium's first home run. With that an annoyed patron released a live piglet onto the field. But then Lefthander May, who was born in Coffeyville, Kans., and once went to a psychiatrist to cure his pitching woes, wound up and delivered a high, tight "moving" fastball to the Twins...
Freshman Kevin Shaw met with similar results, losing a tight match to Thomas by twin 7-6 scores...
...have sense which has so little sound, was to discredit the respectability of a house in Fitzroy Square. And there you see me in the mud. Shall I argue that a mind that knows not Gibbon knows not mortality? or shall I affirm that bad English and respectability are twin sisters, dear to the telegram and odious to the artist...
That night, after dining privately with a small group of potential backers at a Holiday Inn, Carter took commercial flights to Washington and then on to Atlanta. Finally, by a chartered twin-engine Cessna, he flew 110 miles south to Americus and drove to his home town of Plains, arriving at nearly 2 a.m. He had been going for almost 20 hours. Wife Rosalynn had returned to Plains only a few hours earlier, having completed a separate campaign swing of her own to Kentucky. As he fell into bed that night. Jimmy Carter might have been forgiven...