Word: offering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Santa Fe, N. Mex., government buildings, businesses and houses are trimmed with farolitos, votive candles burning on a bed of sand in small paper bags, that offer a warming gleam against the dark. Olympia, Wash., launched a gaudy annual contraption called Christmas Island, assembled from Army pontoon bridges and anchored offshore with a forest of lights and a life-size Nativity scene. Denver's stately City and County Building is a blinking, electrified gingerbread house as multicolored as a jukebox. Not to be outdone, Austin sports a 165-ft.-tall, man-made metal tree shining out over a Santa...
Morris' work on a case does not end when a lawyer agrees to take it. Checking off a master list on which she keeps track of the 89 Georgia cases, she regularly calls each attorney to update her records and offer encouragement. Since some of her recruits are not well versed in death penalty work and related issues of constitutional law, Morris, though no lawyer herself, also provides assistance by collecting documents and asking leading questions. She reproduces and mails relevant material to the lawyers and continuously monitors cases in which the state seeks the death penalty and fails...
...companies have little comfort to offer beyond the assurance that supplies of heating oil are adequate. Says Gulfs Charles H. Bowman, vice president for energy regulation and compliance: "We are earning money in a shortage situation?hardship, if you will?that will be used to help alleviate the shortage. We don't feel that our profit increase on home heating oil, about three-quarters of a cent per gal. over three years, is exorbitant. If anything, it is not enough." True, Europeans are struggling with heating-fuel bills of as much as $1.50 per gal. in Denmark and Austria...
...majority of the nation's apartment dwellers who do not have fireplaces, there are a few alternatives. Space heaters are selling well, though fire departments warn of dangers from liquid fuel and certain electric models. Safer and cheaper by far are the 79? sheets of transparent plastic offered as "indoor storm windows." Used in combination with Mortite and other caulking compounds (some offered in decorator colors), they can effectively seal out drafts around window frames, balcony doors and air-conditioning units. One Chicago store shows shoppers a quick how-to-do-it movie to help them with installation. Insulated...
...home is the hot-water heater. Most hot-water tanks retain heat for at least eight to ten hours; with electrically operated heaters it is possible to save substantially on hot-water bills by rewarming the water during nighttime or the early morning hours when utility companies offer reduced rates for so-called off-peak usage. Several firms manufacture industrial-grade timer clocks for that purpose. The Tork Corp.'s clock retails for $30 to $40 and is easily wired up by a licensed electrician. Sales of such timers have jumped by 300% over the past two years...