Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Big Oil clearly was in trouble. By a vote of 268 to 157, the House had just approved a proposal that the industry thought it could defeat: legislation that would set aside 126 million acres of Alaska's most spectacular wilderness. The bill would place stringent limits on how the land could be developed by oil companies looking for new sources of petroleum, as well as by lumber and mining interests. The most sweeping land conservation legislation in U.S. history, the bill would preserve an area slightly larger than California. It would also protect the great caribou herds...
...Four Modernizations": The Chinese Communists themselves understand that it won't be easy to achieve such an ambitious venture. Why, then, did they announce the program? The purpose was simply to fool the Americans and other foreigners, to attract their attention. The same is true of the "Big Character Posters" on Democracy Wall. The Four Modernizations were designed to give the outside world the impression that the mainland was going to turn into a huge market. But in fact no country can be modernized unless it can first modernize its thinking and its political system. Unless Communist China does...
...started with some intoxicating cracks about "three-martini lunches" and grew into bigger shots at "excessive profits," "massive rip-offs" and "guideline violations." Jimmy Carter's relations with Big Business, never warm or close, have become even cooler and more distant as the President and his lieutenants have poured out inflammatory business-bashing rhetoric. The assaults are particularly troubling because they come at a time when the nation can ill afford more divisiveness. "Every big businessman is wondering when it will be his turn," says Forrest Rettgers, chief lobbyist for the National Association of Manufacturers. "Carter is shooting...
...Nathan, a Washington consultant, Pechman and other members are all but certain that Congress will seek to lower personal and corporate taxes next year by $15 to $30 billion. Though the President's anti-inflation wage-price guidelines have had only marginal success in holding down settlements for big unions, the majority of the board members would preserve them because they have kept wages of nonunion workers lower than they might have been...
Suspicions of anything big lead to a lot of lip shooting...