Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Known to teammates as "the beeg fella," the 6 ft. 2 in., 210 Ib. Carty describes himself as "a crazy hitter until two strikes, then I look for the strike . zone." Bat cocked straight up like an exclamation point, he hits with power to all fields. In a recent game against Philadelphia, he pounded three home runs to three different fields. That may be just the beginning. In past seasons, Rico notes, he has always done his best hitting in July and August...
...unnecessary lights. It also wants to link the Midwest's power resources with those of the Missouri Valley and the Pacific Northwest. Thus power could be shunted back and forth to meet peak load requirements in the three regions-each of which lies in a different time zone. Finally, the council suggests revising the formulas for determining the price of power so that the more electricity a consumer uses, the more he pays. At present most utilities reduce rates for big users...
...dynamic, innovative man who affects long hair and Carnaby Street clothes, Duval has come up with a series of plans aimed at alleviating the island's problems and ending its near-total dependence on sugar. He hopes to make the entire island a Hong Kong-style free zone, and to lure foreign capital with tax concessions and tax holidays. Duval hopes to develop tourism-and lovely, mountainous Mauritius, lined with coral reefs and frequently framed by giant rainbows, has much to offer...
Syvertsen, tall, bespectacled and assured, had worked seven years with the Associated Press in New York, Poland and Moscow before joining CBS in 1966. Lately, as a correspondent in the network's Tokyo bureau, he had been spending one month out of every three in the war zone. Not reluctantly: Syvertsen had a reputation for spunk. TIME'S Rome bureau chief, James Bell, particularly remembers a time in 1963 when Nikita Khrushchev was meeting with Dean Rusk in Pitsunda on the Black Sea. "The Soviet security people tried to throw us out," Bell recalls. "We were rescued...
...will be in trouble if unemployment reaches 51%. That was just about the average jobless rate during the early 1960s, when the Democrats were in power, and that is what Nixon calls "the critical number." Last week the Labor Department reported that unemployment rose too close to the critical zone in May, increasing from 4.8% to 5% of the nation's work force...