Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some political observers argue that Wilson's left-wing opponents are using the Common Market referendum to challenge his control of the Labor Party for reasons only tangentially connected to the EEC. The politically ambitious Benn, whose campaign to advance public ownership of British industry has made him anathema to the party's right wing, seems particularly intent on driving a wedge between the Prime Minister and Britain's restive labor unions...
...acceptable package of energy legislation, President Ford ordered a phasing out of Government price controls on U.S.-produced oil over the next two years. The move could more than double the price of about two-thirds of the nation's oil output-a prospect that is anathema to many of the Democrats, who hold commanding majorities in both House and Senate...
...imaginative and flexible policy." In gentler words, that was Percy's advice against intransigence. "All options are freely discussed in Israel," Percy observed wryly. "But apparently you can't do it here." Senator Buckley agrees: "Among many Jews, if you aren't 100% behind their position, you are anathema...
...recently, as a leaderless Democratic Party considers the possible nominees for 1976; a relatively obscure Congressman from a state with six electoral votes; a junior Senator from lexas whose extravagent political hashes are reminiscent of the still-unpopular Lyndon Johnson; a conservative Senator from the State of Bocing an anathema to liberal Democrats, who suffers from suspicion about the handling of his campaign fund in 1972; a former Senator from Oklahoma who ran for the Presidency three years ago because he couldn't get re-elected to the Senate; and an outgoing Governor from Georgia, a peanut farmer, whose major...
Their views are anathema within OPEC. At the Quito meeting, Venezuela, Algeria, Libya, Nigeria and Kuwait pushed hard for a 63? increase in posted prices to offset the effects of inflation on the prices of the goods that they buy from the U.S., Europe and Japan. Iranian Finance Minister Jamshid Amuzegar, who has accused the Saudis of hypocritically calling for price reductions while actually raising prices, favored a slightly smaller hike, "to show the industrialized nations that we are serious when we say that they must keep inflation in check." Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani reportedly threatened to force...