Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the Three Mile Island accident [April 9], I intend to vote against any politicians who say "Maybe" to nuclear power, regardless of their opinions on all other matters. What good is a chicken in every pot if the broth is radioactive...
...enforced by what some viewed as an atmosphere of psychological intimidation. The charge of capitulation inspired much heated debate: an associate professor at the University of Texas went so far as to ban from his classes all books written by Harvard professors, charging that the Faculty here had "turned chicken." More temperate charges adopted essentially the same argument, but the Faculty held its ground. Later, Pusey, surely no capitulationist, justified the vote by maintaining that "the black student thing is a very special matter." Despite Pusey's defense, the criticisms, as well as a lingering resentment on the part...
...defended his decontrol program before a Democratic fund-raising dinner by saying, "I will not allow this painful but necessary step to become an excuse for a massive rip-off of the American people by American oil companies. They are going to be all over Capitol Hill like a chicken on a June bug. They say they have more influence on Congress than the American people have. I say, let's prove them wrong." Ultimately, oilmen may find it easier to live with a tax that they do not want than a fire-breathing President and a furious public...
...believe in them. His three-year-old biweekly newsletter. Ruff Times, has 80,000 subscribers who pay $125 apiece for 15 months of advice. His second annual convention on financial survival last February drew 5,200 fans to Anaheim, Calif. Ruff usually commands $3,000 an appearance on the Chicken Little lecture circuit, and his half-hour syndicated TV talk show, Ruff House, is carried by 48 stations...
...time, a day-by-day menu that allows no substitutions. At least by the dieter. Tarnower himself changed the menus somewhat when he wrote his book. For example, the dinner that the original followers most dreaded (cottage cheese, eggs and cooked cabbage) has been changed to roast chicken, spinach, green peppers and string beans...