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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expressway on the West Side to relieve traffic congestion in the city, but Walker had balked at the project, largely because of his hostility to the Cook County Democratic machine. Thompson approved construction of a more modest expressway, and in turn the Cook County Democrats abandoned their drive to add $100 million to his proposed $3.45 billion education appropriation. "That was the make-or-break issue in the budget," says Thompson. Thanks in part to higher tax revenues from a reviving economy, he expects to end fiscal year 1978 with a tidy $85 million surplus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rookies with Big Dreams | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...said he was trying to show how the character of Judas developed through successive presentations of the Passion in the Bible and how the development of the character required the authors to add unsubstantiated details to complete the narrative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norton Lectures | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

...foreign jesters, and any sensation short of these unrealistic demands was bound to come off as a letdown. Looking back now, this onetime Monty Python groupie realizes what was wrong with that TV re-run; adding the visual dimension to the already warped dialogue of the troupe did not add much to the humor, but it did effectively shatter the mystique surrounding Monty Python stemming from my ignorance of the group's background and appearance. Had they but remained unseen, the Monty Python figures would have preserved their demigods-of-comedy status in my mind...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Beating a Dead Parrot | 2/11/1978 | See Source »

...Crimson has a different look. A breakdown in our typesetting equipment forced us to set much of today's copy on The Independent's equipment, and to cut back the issue to four pages. We'd like to thank The Independent for all its help and to add that The Crimson will be back to normal as soon as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow Job | 2/7/1978 | See Source »

...forever. This is simply not true. The major increase in public service authorizations would cost from $1.6 billion in Fiscal Year 1979 and $1.88 billion in Fiscal Year 1980-but only if you and the Congress deem that a complete appropriation should be recommended. Other parts of the bill add some minor costs, but the public is not served by misleading cost estimates. We have asked for a justification of your staffs cost estimates, but have not yet received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Chairman, Feb. 6, 1978 | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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