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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 11, 1977
A Winner? Say It Again! |
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BETTY WHITE: "John, the CBS brass just called." John Hillerman: "Good, they've learned how to dial."This could be real life, but it is just a rehearsal for an episode of "The Betty White Show," a new CBS sitcom from the MTM factory premiering Monday at 9 p.m., on Channel 9. White, who won an Emmy and spent four years playing the over-sexed Sue Ann on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," now...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 10, 1977
Turkey Raises Prices Sharply to Reassure Creditors |
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In a last-ditch effort to stave off economic collapse, the Turkish government imposed a series of draconian price increases designed to restore confidence among the country's international creditors.Prices on gasoline nearly doubled and charges for first-class postal service and local telephone calls nearly tripled. Prices on a wide range of goods, including electricity, fuel oil, cement and newsprint, went up sharply.With a severe foreign-exchange shortage and a deficit...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 4, 1977
Whites Reap SBA Benefits To Minorities |
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White entrepreneurs, by setting up captive firms and installing blacks in phony executive positions, have reaped millions in non-competitive federal contracts that were intended to help struggling minority businesses become self-sufficient.How these "front" corporations systematically siphoned lucrative contracts from a $1.5 billion program to assist the "economically and socially disadvantaged" is outlined in internal government documents...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 3, 1977
Begin on Occupied Lands |
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Israel's prospective Prime Minister Menachem Begin has moderated the position of his Likud Party on occupied Arab lands, according to party sources, who say it does not specify - as it present - a claim on the West Bank of the Jordan River.Begin, who is seeking to form a coalition Cabinet, took time off to meet with Sen. Richard Stone (D-Fla.). "I delivered the love and affection for Mr. Begin felt so deeply by Israel's many friends in the United...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 6, 1977
Stay on Your Toes for Yellow Perch |
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Maybe it's too early for the yellow perch to run. Maybe the cold winter is going to hold them back this year. Bob Bohrer isn't taking any chance: he's going out to find them.Bohrer has been finishing this area and keeping meticulous records of his successes and failures for seven years. The figures speak for themselves.In 1972 he fished the Corsica River near Centreville on the Eastern Shore when the yellow perch were moving upstream to spawn. On...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 6, 1977
Bus Driver's Courtesy Pays |
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The just-risen sun threw a checker-board of shadows among the gravestones in Rock Creek Cemetery at the Allison Road bus stop where Neil Woodcock was about to start another morning run. Right on time."Driver of the year? That little thin white man?" exclaimed Minnie King, a black woman waiting at the stop. She works at a downtown dry cleaners. "Good, I sent in a card for him. He sees you coming, he'll never drive off and leave you standing in...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 28, 1977
India: The Right Direction |
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LET CREDIT be given where it's due: Indira Gandhi, harshly criticized here and elsewhere for ending the practice (however flawed) of democracy in India 19 months ago, has begun to reverse course. True, the emergency legislation she invoked to justify her assumption of dictatorial powers remains available for her use. The large increments that she added to executive power in the emergency period are firmly imbedded in law. The political opposition lacks unity and vigor.But she has...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 6, 1977
New York's Case of Old-Fashioned Politics |
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The brightly painted blue and white sound truck moves through the crowded streets with the chant "Re-elect Abe Beame . . . Reelect Mayor Beame . . . He's delivered on his promises . . ." If the 925-page report of the Securities and Exchange Commission charging Beame with deception in covering up the true state of the city's finances two years ago, while trying to sustain the value of city bonds, has brought any change in the Beame campaign, it is...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 30, 1977
Saudi Arabia now earns about $40 billion a year f |
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Saudi Arabia now earns about $40 billion a year from oil and saves a good part fo it. Even if it stops producing oil, a new study predicts that by 1981 the desert kingdom will be earning $10 billion in income from its savings alone. The study by the First National Bank of Chicago was quoted today in the Middle East Economic Survey. ... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 25, 1977
On Hold: A Lifetime on the Line |
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If Hollywood is to be believed, Alexander Graham Bell's redoubtable assistant, Mr. Watson, may have been the first person to have been put on hold.Dn Ameche, who played Bell, spilled a caustic chemical on himself, hollered into the as-yet-untested instrument: "Mr. Watson come here, I need you," and then danced around in pain, leaving Watson in effect, ON HOLD.It's been going downhill ever since.A local journalist recently estimated...
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