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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 25, 1977
Good Samaritans |
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When the AFL and CIO merged in 1955, one of the federation's first acts was to establish an Ethical Practices Committee. A year later, Chairman Al Hayes received a tongue-in-cheek telegram from the old labor lion, John L. Lewis. "Have you found any ethical practices?" asked Lewis.The same question might be addressed to official Washington today. The headlines tell of corruption and conflicts. Have the old virtues vanished from government? We have...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 25, 1977
Conversation about Christmas |
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SMALL BOY: Years and years ago, when you were a boy . . .SELF: When there were wolves in Wales, and birds the colour of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlours, and chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears . . .SMALL BOY: You are not so old as Mr. Beynon Number Twenty-Two who can remember when there were no motors. Years and...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 23, 1977
Telenet Makes Initial Public Offering |
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Telenet Corp., a Washington based data communications network operator, is in the midst of an initial offering of stock to the public.Incorporated in 1972, Telenet pioneered on a commercial basis a so-called "packet switched" data communications service, which permits a wide variety of computers and data terminals to be linked for instantaneous use.Telenet operates a nationwide network of switching centers linked by leased high-speed communications lines....
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 23, 1977
A Sleigh Ride to Unemployment |
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For Harry Patrick, one of the last recent white knights of labor union reform, the sleigh ride ended this week.His five-year term done as secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, Patrick cleaned out his office, said his farewells and then did what most other 47-year-old coal miners with five kids would do.With his union on strike and no mine to return to, Harry Patrick applied for unemployment compensation benefits - a far cry from the $35,000-a-year UMW job.For now,...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 22, 1977
Recent Actions by the D.C. Zoning Commission |
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The following final actions were taken by the D.C. Zoning Commission at its Dec. 8 public meeting: Scheduled a public hearing to be held on March 6, 1978 in the District Building to consider new rules of practice and procedure for the Zoning Commission to replace existing rules adopted in 1972.Scheduled a public hearing to be held on January 23, 1978 in The District Building to consider zoning map and regulation changes to implement the foreign missions and international agencies...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 20, 1977
New Homes Alter Burke's Bucolic Ambience |
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Until early this year, Burke, a 9 square-mile rectangle of meadowland and woods west of Springfield, was one of Fairfax County's last rural outposts, a place where not much has happened since Gen. J.E.B. Stuart captured 3,000 Union mules in 1862.Today, as quickly as bulldozers can scrape the pastures and the woods down to clay, Burke is being converted into suburban cul-de-sacs. More new houses go up in a week than were built in a decade in Burke's earlier days....
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 12, 1977
Lisbon's Revolutionary Ardor Fades |
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The Alfama, a dense cluster of small pastel plastered houses tumbling down the hillside below the cathedral is Lisbon's oldest quarter. It is a jumble of overcrowded dwellings. In the Beco do Carneiro or Sheep's Alley, the eaves of the houses overhang and provide a canopy for the three-foot passage.Women in black dresses and black scarves hang washing from iron grill balconies filled with flowers. Shabbily dressed boys and men tend pigeons. Chickens wander in and...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 11, 1977
AFL-CIO Unveils Prescription for Nation's Economic Ills |
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AFL-CIO leaders today unveiled their prescription for curing the nation's economic ills: import quotas and other stringent trade restraints, coupled with a $31 billion economic stimulus package of jobs spending and "substantial" tax cuts for low-to-moderate-income Americans next year.The package, drafted by the resolutions committee for the AFL-CIO's biennial convention here, bears the unwritten imprimatur of AFL-CIO President George Meany...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 11, 1977
Misunderstanding of Farmer's Role Is Biggest Problem, Says Protester |
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Sitting at the wheel of his big red tractor, Bill Parker looked the part - dusty boots and blue jeans, clear eyes in a weathered face, rough hands cracked by cold weather and hard work.No doubt about it, he said. There's an image problem."People are always trying to associate farmers with people who carry lunch pails," Parker said as he eased the throttle forward toward Washington. "But we're businessmen, like GM (General...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 8, 1977
Life on Cecil Place |
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It is the honeysuckle that most of them remember - growing lush and wild along a chain-link fence that separated Cecil Place NW from the old paper mill. "It was why I moved in here," said one resident. "It was the charm I was looking for," said another.Today, in the name of progress, the honeysuckle is gone. In its place is a chicken-wire fence that bears emergency no-parking signs. Cecil Place, once a charming urban island of a dozen town...
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