Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full program would not go into effect until 1981. Congressional reaction has been cautious, with a variety of quibbles. Al Ullman, House Ways and Means chairman, objects to putting the working poor on welfare because it could have a bad psychological effect. He also wants to base payments on income alone, not on the size of a family. Welfare families, he feels, should not be encouraged to have more children to get more money...
...familiar police dramas. At the control center at 109th Precinct headquarters in Queens, the city-wide task force mostly answers telephones, hears out citizens who bring their information personally, dispatches teams to the tedious job of trying to determine if the informants' suspicions have a solid base...
Mandatory rationing now affects 68 California cities and towns, including Los Angeles. Backed up by voluntary measures, consumption fell 23% in L.A. alone in July. Some homeowners are installing waterless toilets, which use a mineral-oil base that is constantly recycled and filtered through a 500-gal. waste tank under the house; every year a truck pumps out the refuse. Others have attached fiberglass tanks full of compressed air to cut down on the number of gallons of water required to flush a toilet. People are also affixing gadgets to their showers and faucets to decrease the flow. Many California...
...They want to discuss a constitution, with universal suffrage, a bill of rights, an independent judiciary-which we also want-as if this were a normal colonial situation. It is not, it is war. What will be the power base, the security base for such a constitution? We say: We have our forces; we have both military and police trained and ready. We shall have a constitution only when we know the power base won't break. The British are saying that the freedom fighters should be frozen in place here, and the Smith forces over there, and then...
Feldman does not yet have Brooks' sure ability to touch and goofily transform each and every cliche base on which his chosen model rests. Around the middle of this picture, energy flags and a sort of desperate silliness begins...