Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just that "in everything I was saying, or certainly thinking at the time, was but...to sure that as far as any slip-over, or should I say "slop-over" I think would be a better word. Any slop-over in a way that would damage innocent people, or blow it into political proportions...it was that that I certainly wanted to avoid...
...testimony. They are angry in part because they had changed the congressional resolution setting budget targets to accommodate the higher deficit the rebate would have produced-and now Carter is asking them to change it back again. Declared Chairman Edmund Muskie caustically: "These moves have constituted a body blow to the budget process. As of this moment, there is no discipline left in the 1977 budget resolution." But there is also real worry that the Administration is being too optimistic about the outlook...
Firstbaseman Jim Controy then delivered the big blow with a line drive homerun deep to left field pulling the Eagles to within...
Coach Michael Horn blamed the loss, which spelled a sudden end to the season that began with several promising early-season victories, on "a series of misfortunes." Horn said the most damaging blow to the Crimson's chances came midway through the meet, when skippers Terry Neff and Tom Reps had to switch from sailing International Twelves to less familiar Flying Juniors...
...there could be another way: a phased decontrol that would allow prices to seek their own level-and discourage consumption-without dealing too great an inflationary blow in any one year. The Government could ensure that the profits oil companies make from higher prices would be devoted to exploration and development of new fields by placing a tax on any earnings that were not -with the proceeds to be devoted, perhaps, to joint federal-private exploitation of resources that are particularly difficult and expensive to tap, such as those lying under water on the outer continental shelf. The impact...