Word: help
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...this year. There are only 26 shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, as compared with 32 days a year ago. To offset the fewer business days, merchants in many areas of the country are hoping for cooler weather. Cold and especially snow remind shoppers that Christmas is near and help business. Traditionally, nothing hurts December sales more than soft, balmy weather...
...effort to ease the sting of high finance charges and to help sales, both Ford and Chrysler announced last week that they would cut the effective price of many models through interest-rate subsidies. Ford said it will charge customers no higher than 12% interest; Chrysler will provide cash rebates that will vary in size depending on the prime rate...
...Honolulu prosecuting attorney by vowing to crack down on hoodlums. A sample of his campaign rhetoric: "What was once the paradise of the Pacific is now a jungle prowled by thieves, pimps, prostitutes, robbers, rapists and murderers." United Air Lines and other carriers serving Hawaii have pledged to help law enforcement by flying victims of violence back to the islands free so that they can testify in trials...
Despite their success, neither man is in business to lose money, and both were appalled at their problems with Starsky and Hutch, a shoot-'em-up centered on two offbeat policemen. Their lawyer, William Hayes, 59, repeatedly asked ABC to help them out. ABC made additional payments, and then refused to give another dollar. According to the D.A.'s report, Hayes says that former ABC Vice President George Reeves told him: "No, I can't help you. Don't even come ask me, because everybody here has had it up to their ears with Starsky...
Still she longed to find some way of applying her new faith to help the poor. In the depths of the Depression, she met a wandering French philosopher-laborer named Peter Maurin. On May Day 1933 to challenge their church's social conservatism, they launched the monthly Catholic Worker (price per copy, to this day 1?). Circulation reached 150,000 by 1936 (though...