Word: slice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with two of his seven children. In the kitchen, three women are busy over several bushels of peaches. One woman is peeling the plump yellow fruit; another toils over the kettles simmering on the stove; a third pops peach halves into bottles. The tableau seems to be a Rockwellian slice of rural Americana, a pair of friendly neighbors helping a housewife put up peaches for the winter. There is one discomforting difference, however; all three women are the wives of the man playing in the living room with his children...
Although satellites and other technological advances have made their jobs easier, Striker and Magazine still encounter calamities. Sunspots adversely affect radio circuits, and fishing trawlers periodically slice transoceanic cables. Heavy September rains in the New York area drowned out most of our private teleprinter lines. Sometimes the gap is bridged by switching to conventional telegraph ("overheading," in our argot). On those rare occasions when all lines fail, we fall back on manpower. The communications crush during the Attica prison riot got so bad at one point that some material for last week's cover story had to be flown...
...more desperate uprisings. These cautionary words should find some receptive ears in Washington. Richard Nixon has devoted more money and attention to the problem than any previous President. The Bureau of Prisons' budget has increased from $69 million in 1969 to $194 million for 1972; the corrections slice of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration's budget has grown from $2 million in 1969 to $178 million this year. More than that, both the President and Attorney General John Mitchell have spoken out several times about the need for humane prison reforms, and next December the White House will...
...first year. Because of the way deductions are calculated in the corporate tax structure, this would be about the same as getting 20% knocked off the price of the equipment. From the second year on, the credit would drop to 5%. Treasury officials estimate that the credit would slice $3 billion from corporate taxes during the first fiscal year, $4 billion the second, and somewhat less thereafter. Investors who buy machinery before next Aug. 14 will be able to claim the higher credit for goods delivered six months beyond that date. This accommodation will cause a bulge in 10% claims...
CANNON (CBS). This is another slice of Dashiell Ham, with William Conrad featured as a high-priced private investigator. The first episode, involving armed robbery of a rodeo box office, was unconvincing and, in the end, embarrassingly sentimental. Conrad himself, who resembles a cross between Orson Welles and Walter Cronkite, is a screen-crowding presence with a pomegranate voice enriched by eleven years as radio's Matt Dillon...