Word: applauds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this point the lobbyists are zeroing in on the particular parts of the plan that they will try hardest to change. Oilmen will complain that the program is one-sided, stressing conservation, which they applaud, but neglecting production. Their aim is to persuade Congress to scrap Carter's proposed taxes on crude oil and raise costs to consumers by letting prices rise instead. Only in that way, they argue, can they get the money needed to finance new exploration. There is some talk in the industry of having the oilmen themselves propose a "windfall" tax on any profits they...
...higher-and not have to pay exorbitant heating bills. The Carlses, for example, annually spend around $400 on fuel oil-a figure that would be the envy of Hinsdale homeowners. The Carlses have also helped to reduce costs by taking the kind of initiative that the Carter Administration would applaud: forming a cooperative with ten other families to buy oil, with the result that they get a rate of 400 per gal., v. the standard price of 600. (Hinsdale's rate...
...houses of suspected narcotics traffickers in the biggest drug bust ever launched along the Tex-Mex border. In all, 62 people had been indicted. As the handcuffed prisoners were unloaded from official cars at the border patrol office in Rio Grande City (pop. 6,000), townspeople gathered to applaud and jeer, "You finally...
...Barrand, who will perform April 23 at 8 p.m. at the Joy of Movement Center in Central Square. Roberts and Barrand, two madcap Englishmen who not surprisingly bill themselves as "two madcap Englishmen," play traditional English songs and ballads and tell traditional English stories and jokes. If you go, applaud and laugh at all the traditional pauses...
...change, bigoted, and often violent, their finer qualities--loyalty, pride, a sense of tradition, bravery--are also there. Scorn is reserved for the meddling "goo-goos," the knee-jerk liberals who vanish in crisis, the Brattle Street chic who, safely on the sidelines, their children in private schools, applaud Garrity's ruling. At times, Liberty's Chosen Home is devastating social history: the concerned group of clergymen unable to agree on a joint statement about the crisis over their breakfast at the Harvard Club; the silence of civil libertarians when the TPF went into the Rabbit Inn with clubs swinging...