Word: billions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House seem to have a deep compulsion to do everything a little more, better, grander than any of the others who have gone before them. Perhaps it is a natural urge, since getting to be President of the United States is about a 6 billion-to-1 shot at any given moment in the human scene. Having established that triumph, they look for other records to break...
...first fumble concerned the budget for fiscal 1980, which begins next Monday. Two weeks ago, Senate hawks wrung a promise from Carter to support an additional 3% increase, after allowing for inflation, in the defense budget for next year. This would mean a Pentagon budget of $130.6 billion in fiscal...
...pointless display of pique, the House voted, 215 to 200, against raising the ceiling on the national debt by nearly $100 billion, to $929 billion. The rejection underscored the anger of many Congressmen over the Administration's bud get and economic policies. But the defeat was more symbolic than real. When the House votes on the bill a second time, it is expected to pass. The alternative would be unthinkable even to conservatives: the Government would have to stop borrowing within a few weeks...
...Ambassador Ephriam Evron for Defense Minister Ezer Weizman two days before the White House anniversary festivities. Harold Saunders, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern affairs, was preparing to leave the party when an Israeli journalist asked him to clarify his earlier comment that the U.S. was contributing $4.8 billion to underwrite the Israeli-Egyptian rapprochement, but neither country seemed willing to inform the U.S. of their plans for policing the transfer of the Sinai from Israel to Egypt. "Is that friendship?" Saunders had asked, a bit sarcastically...
...quasars were about 10 billion light-years from earth (meaning that the light detected at Kitt Peak had left the objects 10 billion years ago), and both were receding from the earth at two-thirds the speed of light. What was most unusual was that they were only some 150,000 light-years apart-a stone's throw by cosmic standards-and had virtually identical light spectrums, which meant that their physical characteristics, as well as their velocities, were the same...