Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Government would implement a national coal policy, states like West Virginia that have huge reserves of high-quality low sulfur coal, most of which is mined underground, might be able to compete with the Arab states. More important, they could provide our nation with clean air, a favorable balance of payments, higher employment and greater economic and energy independence...
...current issue, however, they were served a shockingly unbusinesslike change of pace: the "Embezzler's Guide to the Computer," a 6,800-word how-to-steal article that details the ins and outs of swindling banks and corporations by tampering with their computers. Written by University of Virginia Professor Brandt Allen, a consultant to the FBI on computer fraud, "Embezzler's Guide" offers aspiring thieves encouragement ("There is a great deal of embezzlement that goes undetected") and dozens of helpful tips. For example: "Always be on the watch for special circumstances that create opportunities for fraud, such...
Free Champagne. More and more vacationers have whittled air fares by booking charter flights and package tours. Says Virginia Donohue, of Donohue Travel in Wilmette, Ill., "The only people going to Europe this year-and these are people who have been going to Europe since they were children, an don't buy tours-are coming in askin for charters and free information like where can they get a list of Irish farm houses where they can stay...
Such events nourish him. He has just finished attending the Cherry Festival in Traverse City, Mich. That goes on the list with the Holland Tulip Festival and the Virginia Apple Blossom Festival. One of his happiest afternoons in his first year at the White House was taking the Soviet cosmonauts to the Alexandria, Va., firemen's picnic...
Betty Ford still refers to it as "the time when the roof caved in"-the time when an unassuming Middle American political family suddenly had to move from a modest four-bedroom suburban Virginia home into the mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. "I really didn't want to come here," the First Lady told TIME Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angelo in the White House last week. "I was afraid because of the social demands, and I didn't think of it as a meaningful position for me." Adds her daughter Susan: "At first the idea of the presidency scared...