Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Ford Motor could not have picked a more crucial moment to tap lacocca's well-incubated talents. Despite the company's present good fortune with the Maverick and the Pinto, profits are being squeezed hard by rising costs and Government pressure for safety and antipollution development. Just after his appointment. lacocca declined a $100 bet on whether Henry Ford's prediction of a 9.7-million-car year was possible in 1971. "Consumers have the money," he said, "but in their present mood it is doubtful that they will spend it. We have just finished an auto strike...
...deplores wiretapping, which Attorney General John Mitchell has sharply expanded, as a license for political harassment and an invasion of privacy. But he also presents it as a paradigm of police inefficiency. It may take 20 men to install one tap, often by breaking and entering the suspect's home, plus as many as six more men to monitor the tap, often for months and months in which they could be gathering solid evidence instead of recording mostly innocent chatter. Clark's Justice Department shunned bugging-but in 1968 somehow managed to indict 1,166 figures from organized...
...near future. Because Suffolk's 1,200,000 residents depend on backyard cesspools and septic tanks, household wastes that do not break down in natureespecially detergentseventually seep into the underground water supply. As a result, more and more drinking water flows out of the tap with a smelly foam that tastes awful and perhaps affects human health...
RONALD v. DELLUMS. They ate watermelon and cheered a tap dancer at Ron Dellums' victory party in prideful put-on, as a black militant triumphed at the polls. The new Democratic Congressman from California, one of twelve blacks elected to Congress last week, offered his thanks to "my public relations expert, Spiro T. Agnew." His comment was far from gratuitous, for when the Vice President attacked Dellums as an "out-and-out radical," Agnew rattled the voters in the white liberal community of Berkeley and the black ghettos of Oakland into the voting booths. Democrat Dellums, 34, social worker...
...months. One bar owner there sums up the economics of the trend: "I had a regular beer bar here, and I was lucky if I took in $80 a night. Now I get a couple onstage, pay them $10, charge a $3 cover and $1.25 for a glass of tap beer that costs me a nickel. Even on a bad night I come out with...