Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Goodyear tire franchise in Manchester, G.O.P. Chairman Gerald Carmen concedes that "the ordinary, rank and file voter isn't all that stirred up. You think he's trying to decide between Reagan and Crane? Nah. He's wondering whether his car will start in this cold weather. He's hoping the temperature won't drop to 20 below tonight...
...illegal covert activities at home and abroad under the guise of national security. Out of congressional investigations came several indictments: Gray and two other FBI officials. Edward S. Miller and Mark Felt, were charged with conspiring to authorize illegal break-ins to track down members of the radical Weather Underground; former CIA Director Richard Helms and a pair of ITT officials were charged with lying to a Senate subcommittee in 1973 about plotting to overthrow Chilean President Salvador Allende Gossens. But in late 1977 Helms was allowed to plead no contest to watered-down charges that he misled the Senate...
...diesel has other shortcomings: it is costly (GM charges $287 extra for it), starts poorly in cold weather and some times causes a car to vibrate. Ford, the No. 2 automaker, regards the diesel as a back-up and hopes to ride into the future on a stratified-charge "proco" (programmed combustion) engine. In it, the fuel is essentially divided into two mix tures of gas and air, one of which is "rich" (high on the gas) and one "lean" (high on air). The two mixtures are burned in sequence in the combustion chamber, and this produces 20% more mileage...
Industry spokesmen contend that bad weather and their own difficulties in deciphering the bill's complex regulations limited their drilling. But industry had little trouble untangling the complexities of the price deregulation. Natural gas prices have begun to climb. Government experts and gas company executives expect increases of 18% to 25% this year in Chicago, New York City, Memphis, Louisville and elsewhere. A similar rise is expected even in gas-rich Oklahoma over the next few months. The Department of Energy expects that the higher prices will cost U.S. consumers $1.7 billion to $2 billion...
...summertime, Cafe Florian moves outside to the sidewalk, so you can sit back and watch the passers-by once the weather warms...