Word: chaotically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the Senate's final maneuvering on the tax bill was chaotic, as various Senators sought to push their own particular ideas on who in U.S. society needs the most tax relief. The first big fight was over the 22% oil-depletion allowance, which permits the nation's oil companies to avoid some $2.5 billion in tax obligations. The allowance has been an emotionally charged symbol of tax loopholes that has often blocked serious tax reform...
...Chaotic Takeover. Some accounts from Portugal suggested that Spínola's role was not so passive. Apparently convinced that he could save his country from the chaos and Communist takeover he feared, Spínola reportedly plotted over open telephone lines with ultra-rightists to overthrow the government. Moderate officers, who might conceivably have joined the rebellion, were frightened off by the involvement of members of the old regime and feared that a rightist uprising would end up in a Chilean-style massacre of leftists and plunge the country into civil...
Beginning with the noblest of motives-examination of the roots and consequences of the Viet Nam War-this vigorous, chaotic documentary manipulates time for its own ends. The bombing of Haiphong harbor, John Foster Dulles' domino theory, J. Edgar Hoover's fears of "common-ists," a brutal football game, '40s war movies-all flow back and forth like sand in an hourglass. The confusion is deliberate. Hearts and Minds, says Producer-Director Peter Davis, "is not a chronology of war so much as a study of people's feelings...
...high school and college students from across the country, arranging and presiding over four days of conferences and social events that are intended to approximate the experience of United Nations delegates. It is a big job for them and an important one, for they have to supervise a chaotic stream of events, and carry on a noble tradition of model diplomacy that dates back to 1925, when the first Model League of Nations was held at Harvard...
Vargas Llosa's second novel, The Green House, was respectfully roasted by some critics for its chaotic form, thematic dead ends and lock-step fatalism. There remained, however, the author's undeniable ability to generate powerful atmospheres within his remorseless, self-imposed boundaries...