Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the presidential campaign Carter said he would grant a blanket "pardon" to the 4000 or so draft resisters still wanted by the military, and that he would consider the 30,000-90,000 deserters on a case-by-case basis. He said nothing about the 800,000 Vietnam-era vets with less-than-honorable discharges, the million who failed to register for the draft and are therefore liable for prosecution, and the thousands of civilian war resisters. A fair amnesty should include all these categories...
...Incentive. At the time, the stores sold 25,000 different products, including sporting goods and pots and pans. "Get rid of all that garbage," Tandy ordered; he cut the line by 90%. He set out to blanket the nation with small stores in new shopping centers; he crammed them with radio merchandise and backed them with intensive advertising. Most important, Tandy devised an incentive system under which store managers (average age: 25) earn low salaries but can make up to $30,000 a year through profit sharing and bonuses tied to sales. "I want people who live for and will...
...very difficult" to meet because the unemployment rate has risen to 8.1%. Some analysts are now talking of a 7.1% jobless rate by the end of 1977, but Carter later said he was sticking to his original promise. Concerning another pledge, Carter has not decided whether to broaden the blanket pardon that he promised to give during his first week in office to the 4,500 draft evaders of the Viet Nam War era. Carter is considering also pardoning 5,000 deserters and 85,000 former servicemen who went AWOL during the same period...
When the quake waned, Stewart went back into the hotel and retrieved a pillow and a blanket for Hughes. As soon as he was made comfortable, he went to sleep...
...rule, most comedians treat comedy as a security blanket. They comfort the audience by making whatever unsettles, disturbs or frightens people the chief butt of their jokes. That accounts for the wide popularity of sexual humor, of gibes at local stereotypes and assumed rural, urban, regional and national characteristics. But the rare comedian, impelled by motives that lie too deep for analysis, makes the audience itself the butt of his humor, attacks head-on the smugness, vanity and hypocrisy that people prefer to hide or ignore. Placed in the direct line of comic fire, an audience, and by extension...