Word: adds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Truman Capote's remark that the rich are different because "their vegetables are better" [May 1], I would like to add, "Especially their greens...
When Giaimo opened the House debate two weeks ago, declaring that "congressional restraint is imperative," the first stiff challenge came from a fellow Democrat, New York's Samuel Stratton. He wanted to add $2.4 billion to the proposed defense budget of $115.7 billion (compared with this year's Pentagon budget of $110.1 billion). In private, Giaimo had pleaded with Stratton: "Look, if you put your amendment in, you're playing into the hands of those who want to defeat the budget resolution. Leave it alone." But Stratton would not budge. Fumed Giaimo: "How the hell...
...initial reaction from many business leaders was that the economic stimulus to be expected from the proposed cut was not worth the extra deficit that it would add to the budget. Asked Irving Shapiro, chairman of Du Pont de Nemours & Co.: "Why have it at all if the reductions are going to be too small to do any good?" Oregon Democrat Al Ullman, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which is handling the tax legislation, welcomed Carter's decision, but said that the cut should be reduced to about $15 billion. In any event, Carter may back...
...President Carter is trying to look at the national in terest," Rusk said. "Somebody has to. There is a frenetic quality now about the demands of the special interests. If you add up all the demands being made, they would destroy the nation...
...according to Nazer, "we threw a little money on the problem and solved it." What they threw was $6.6 billion for port expansion. The building program created a tremendous labor shortage; the Saudis solved it by requiring all large foreign contractors to bring their own workers along ? and add the cost to the price of the contract...