Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Carter consulted with Ullman and other congressional leaders, he found that they had no wish to take away anyone's assured tax break in return for a promise of lower rates-especially in an election year. Carter was not impressed by that practical argument, and he continued to urge the reforms...
...season of sunflowers, fresh tomatoes and political candidates. The latter crop may break all yield records as we rush on toward the fall congressional elections. The experts calculate that there will be more handshakes, more speeches and more television en treaties than ever before. These same experts also suggest that when the smoke clears there may be very little change in the Congress along party lines. But there will be more internal stress in the political system. There will be more trouble in the Legislative Branch for its leaders and for President Jimmy Carter...
Many Californians are finding that habits acquired during the dry years are hard to break. Even though water rationing has ended in Marin County, north of San Francisco, residents are continuing to abide by a version of Governor Jerry Brown's thoughts about "less is more." They are conserving water by taking short showers, keeping bricks in their toilet tanks and watering their lawns infrequently. They consequently are using 35% less water than three years ago. "I will never again waste water," boasts Helen Davis of Sausalito. In many Marin restaurants, water is still served only on request...
...Soviet skittishness is understandable. Ideologically, the stakes in Baguio City are even higher than they were in Iceland six years ago, when Bobby Fischer came out of Brooklyn to whip Boris Spassky and temporarily break the long Soviet domination of the game that Lenin himself consecrated as "a gymnasium of the mind." Defending the Soviet honor this time is Karpov, a onetime prodigy who inherited the world title in 1975, when Fischer failed to defend it,* and is now a major Soviet hero, complete with membership on the Young Communist League's central committee. But facing...
...sales manager in the 1950s, he figured he would pep up a dull convention of 1,100 Ford salesmen by proving in a live demonstration that if he dropped an egg from a 10-ft-high ladder onto Ford's new crash-padded dashboard, the egg would not break. He was wrong. Until last week, that was one of the very few times that lacocca came close to having egg on his face. After 32 years with Ford, the plain-spoken son of an Italian immigrant was a Horatio Alger-hero on wheels, a paradigm of upward automobility...