Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal budgets go, the one that President Ford will submit to Congress this week resembles its predecessors in its time-worn definition of just how big the Government must be to meet the needs of the nation. The answer seems to be: bigger. The President called for federal spending in fiscal year 1976, which begins next July, of a record $349.4 billion. That would be an increase of 11.5% over this year's level, even though Ford is proposing almost no new programs except in the energy area. To keep outlays from rising even higher, Ford also called...
...thermostat is set at 62°, and my monthly oil delivery was over $80. Now the President wants an additional tax on our heating oil, which also generates our electricity. Perhaps the answer is to move south. Are California, Texas, Florida, etc., ready to absorb all of us New Englanders...
...President and his associates seem genuinely to feel that there is something dangerously socialistic about gasoline rationing. The best answer, as they see it, is to permit the raising of prices until a balance is reached between supply and demand. But their thinking omits one major factor. In a period of shortages and spiraling prices, petroleum products are most likely to go, not to those who most need them, but to those who can pay the most to get them...
...public housing. "Harvard has a bad record of efforts it could have made and to a degree it has suffered not inconsiderably," an embittered Brooks immediate progress in low income housing I asked for property to build low income housing before the revolution of 1969 but I received no answer from my letter to Pusey Six months later with students sitting in University Hall he gets me on the phone saying we are having a Corporation meeting down here in an hour and a half--can you submit a site so we can move ahead? Pusey selected...
...like this are unchanging and final. When Harry Lime suddenly appears on the second story of a bombed-out building, standing in a shroud of a black overcoat, robed and stiff like the ragged statue propped beneath him to the left, he is more than a clue or an answer in a mystery--he is what crawls out from under the rock when the world is destroyed. This is the kind of moment that makes The Third Man worth seeing over and over again...