Word: basic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quietly presided over Judiciary Committee hearings on the potential dangers of Valium last week. Carter tried to revive his faltering presidency by campaigning for his energy program, which he thinks may be the key to his salvation. In response to congressional objections, he agreed' to compromise on a basic issue. He withdrew his proposal for an $88 billion, ten-year program to develop synthetic fuels and settled for a more modest funding of $22 billion for a two-year plan. He also stopped insisting that the Federal Government operate synthetic fuel plants; they would remain in private hands, with...
...Communists and their sympathizers are trying to divide the armed forces. One of the basic strategies of the Communist Party is to weaken the armed forces of the Philippines. When you hear somebody giving the same old line, "the only way to change is to kill Marcos or take over the government," now that kind of a line is a Communist line...
...calculate the "distance around" a pictured rectangle with two dimensions given; only a third could determine how much fencing was needed to go around a rectangular garden not pictured, but with the same two dimensions given. An N.A.E.P. advisory panel of educators tentatively blamed textbooks and oversimplified "back to basics" programs for the poor results in the "higher order of cognitive skills." though most problems seemed basic indeed...
...during the life of the contract. Pending ratification, neither side would discuss the noneconomic improvements or the size of the increases in the cost-of-living clause and pay rates. One unofficial estimate put the wage increase at between 9% and 12%. At present the combined basic wage rate for all classes of GM workers is $9 an hour; by the end of the contract period that could well have risen...
Supply economics began to reemerge during the worldwide boom of 1971-73, when food, steel, chemicals and other basic industrial materials became scarce, helping to trigger the worldwide inflation. The initial intellectual reponse to that situation was a renewed call for economic planning: if industrial bottlenecks or world food supplies are the cause of inflation, then a more careful planning of capacity and production seems only logical. Not much came of this initiative as the economy sank into recession and slow growth, though traces of the planning philosophy can be found in the legislation that was finally passed under...