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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 7, 1977
Pay Freeze Drives Top Federal Aides Out of Government |
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Fred J. Cassibry is demoralized. He describes the economic landscape of his life with the kind of despair usually reserved for hurricane survivors returning to the wreckage of their home town.Patiently he catalogues the humiliations to which his present financial condition has reduced him - the mounting bills, the thousands of dollars in loans he cannot repay, the friends he avoids because he cannot afford to return their dinner invitations."You think you've...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 25, 1977
Fight to Avert Oil Spills |
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Three hundred and sixty miles off St. Simons Island, Ga., the dawn broke gray and overcast, a sagging sky spitting rain at an ocean of four-foot swells.The ships was steaming northward at 15 knots against a northwest wind, occasional seas spuming over the port bow. Temperatures had dropped into the 50s and winter was capturing the ship once again.Cold is measured on a tanker not only by the crew but by the cargo, which must be kept warm enough not to boil away. Different oil grades...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 20, 1977
Egypt's Economy Geared to Placate Impoverished Masses |
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When the youngest daughter of President Anwar Sadat and the son of one of Egypt's richest men married recently, Cairo newspapers reported that only tea and sandwiches were served to the guests.It was one of many such messages that the government sent to the Egyptian people recently, saying the same thing in different ways: of course, prosperity is just around the corner, but we all have to go through a few tough years first, and the burden is being carride by the powerful and...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 18, 1977
Icy Calm in Hot Pursuit Of Letterkenny Trout |
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We trumbled out of Gerald Almy's brown cabin by the Shenandoah before dawn. The snow crunched and squeaked under our boots as we plodded up a ribbon of path beaten out of the icy slick that coated Almy's acre.The radio crackled as we rolled along under an incredibly clear sky. The word from around Morgantown was below zero - as low as 14 below in the valleys and hollows of the Blue Ridge. Ice coated the windows of the little pickup long after the heat was up.We...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 6, 1977
An S&L that puts its money where its mouth is |
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It is said that Washington is a one-industry town, and that Uncle Sam is the chief industrialist. But private business in Washington is also a force to be reckoned with. While neither retail nor wholesale business in the District is without problems, both are experiencing a boomlet. The following is the second in a series of seven portraits of people who are in private business in Washington.A savings and loan association with a cause? Sure, you sneer - to make money. A Washington...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 5, 1977
U.S. Envoy to Barbados Probed on Incompetence Charge |
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When Theodore R. Britton Jr. was named U.S. ambassador to Barbados in late 1975, no one expected him to take his job for more than it was - a political plum appointment by President Ford of a black Republican for services rendered.What better way to reward a supporter - and enhance the Republicans' image among blacks - than to send Britton to beaufiful Barbados, with its average year-round temperature of 77; give him an embassy, a sprawling residential estate on...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 23, 1977
American soprano Marilyn Horne, deluged with crit |
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American soprano Marilyn Horne, deluged with criticism by Rome opera lovers and the Italian press over reports that she is getting an unusually large fee for her performance in Rossini's "Tancredi," says she can't understand what all the fuss is about."There are many very good Italian singers who carry their money away by the basketsful when they work in America, but no one talks about that," she told reporters in Rome...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 22, 1977
FRENCH RESERVES FALL |
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French gold and foreign currency reserves declined by 393 million francs in November to 101.665 billion francs, the Fiance Ministry said yesterday.Foreign currency reserves fell 305 million francs to 22.854 billion francs following operations by the Bank of France to support the franc in the foreign exchange market, the ministry said. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 30, 1977
29 Years Given To Promoter of 'Patone Village' |
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Paul A. Toneman, the Silver Spring promoter who was convicted last month of luring investors into a fraudulent $1 billion newtown development scheme on Maryland's Eastern Shore, was sentenced to 29 years in prison yesterday in Montgomery County Circuit Court.The 62-year-old Toneman, wearing a rumpled blue sports jacket and looking sober and drawn, was told by Judge David L. Cahoon that the lengthy sentence was based on his belief that "there is nothing . . . to...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 12, 1977
Street-Corner Culture, Commerce Flourish |
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Want to be your own boss, work whenever you feel like it and make up to $500-a-week?For about $300, anyone can acquire a D.C. vendor's license, the necessary bonding, a second-hand card table, a cheap inventory and join the nearly 2,000 Washington area residents who are - for the most part - enjoying profitable careers as street vendors.Street vending has come of age in Washington. Government employees, teachers, technicians and a surprising number of the unemployed,...
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