Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look at people today. They do not got to expensive French restaurants to ward off starvation. Movie stars do not build huge mansions merely to escape the cold. Nor does the businessman wear patent leather shoes to protect his feet from the hot pavement...
...routes in the U.S. where traffic would be heavy enough to fill a profitable percentage of its seats consistently. Eastern seems willing to take the gamble, however, and U.S. planemakers are apparently afraid that other European jets may eventually follow the Airbus into the American market. To ward off that long-term threat, Boeing, the giant of the U.S. industry, has sent ace international Salesman E.H. ("Tex") Boullioun to Britain. His mission: to explore possibilities for future collaboration with a British-led European consortium to develop a new generation of commercial jets for the 1980s...
What to do? Ward 22 Alderman Frank D. Stemberk tried a new approach. With $500 from the ward treasury and $220 from local businessmen, he offered a $1 bounty on every rat killed. Residents armed themselves with bats, homemade spears and flashlights, and waited on their porches for the rats to appear...
...families made 20 kills a night, and the bounty fund was depleted within a week. To continue his war on rats, Stemberk wrote President Carter for federal aid. The alderman also wants the President to put Government scientists to work developing a new poison-one powerful enough to kill Ward 22's super rats...
...been gyrating from month to month and even week to week. In the past three weeks, the money supply first grew by $3 billion, then dropped $800 million, then rose another $2 billion (to a seasonally adjusted daily average of $331.6 billion). In an effort to ward off inflationary pressures, the Federal Reserve will have to try to hold down the growth, and that will push interest rates up further-how far and fast is unclear...