Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This period could run until next Sept. 30, or it could be postponed until calendar year 1978 to give drivers more time to adjust their habits and possibly cut fuel consumption. At the end of the trial, statisticians would add up the amount of fuel actually consumed during the "base" period. Thereafter, the gas tax would be automatically increased by 50 at the end of any year in which total consumption rose more than 1% above the base period...
...when many forecasters expect gasoline consumption, which now runs at roughly 294 million gallons a day, to start declining. Then the tax would be raised another nickel or maybe even a dime for every year in which gas usage failed to drop at least 2% from the base period. The tax would reach its maximum in 1985 and not increase after that. Says White House Aide Stuart Eizenstat: "We don't want to make the level of consumption so unrealistically unachievable that the tax automatically will go into effect each year. But at the same time, we want...
Loyal Crowd. McDonald's has also been willing to change its stores and products. Breakfasts, introduced last year, have won an older and loyal crowd. In one Southwestern store the local manager opened a drive-through window to serve G.I.s from a nearby base who were forbidden to enter any public place in their fatigues; the chain has now opened such windows in 400 stores and plans them in another 500. Says Schmitt: "A woman will drive through in housecoat and curlers, when she wouldn't come into the store that...
Stewart made his high fastball look a little too good and Backus took him deep for the only extra-base hit of the day. "Ron made two bad pitches all day and that was one of them" Coach Loyal Park said after the game. Park said the other bad pitch had led to Wilhite's two-run single in the third...
...mention here. The clay piece looks like a typical Washington D.C. monument, but the figures enshrined on the top bear vague resemblance to the heros of Watergate. Nixon stands in the middle holding a serpent and he has one foot on a crocodile. The roughly scrawled inscription on the base of the monument reads, "Get Back! Watergaters, crocodiles and dangergous fish-enemies. Raise not your heads. Let your mouths be closed and your gullets blocked. Back Evil Doers! Raise not your face against those who are in the White House." And on the back of the piece, another inscription adds...