Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office was thrust upon him, and he has attempted, haltingly at times, manfully always, to cope. On Wednesday in his State of the Union message, Ford was to present in its entirety his most ambitious endeavor to date: a new, sweeping economic and energy program designed to combat the recession without igniting further inflation and to conserve fuel in the bargain. Though there might be some last-minute changes in detail, it combines a $15 billion tax cut to stimulate the economy with a series of tariffs and measures intended to boost the cost of using crude oil, thus discouraging...
...royal palace on the Dam Square in Amsterdam usually have unkempt uniforms, straggly beards and lank shoulder-length hair. In fact, they look more like refugees from a rock group than members of a NATO contingent that might some day have to face the Red Army in combat. Yet, in one sense, the army of The Netherlands is the most modern in the world: it is fully unionized...
...month drop in a quarter-century. Boding ill for consumer confidence in the months ahead, a new survey by Pollster Louis Harris reported that 80% of the American people now believe the U.S. is in a recession, and 60% see it continuing through the rest of the year. To combat the worsening economic problem, President Ford at week's end signed legislation appropriating $4.5 billion for unemployment aid and job programs...
...necessary 16 more were expected to do so long before the 1979 deadline. Then in early 1973 various groups mounted a powerful opposition drive protesting that the amendment would abolish many legal safeguards for women, like protective labor legislation, and would require women to be drafted and go into combat. Only eight more states approved the ERA in 1973 and three in 1974. Meanwhile, Nebraska and Tennessee voted to rescind their ratification. (Whether or not to accept these reversals may eventually be up to Congress...
...Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.) accepts a position as chairman of Boston's new Combat Zone Development Authority. Sporting a hair transplant and a WIN button, Mills unveils a new program for light-traffic hours, modeled after the MTA's highly successful Dime Time. "With unemployment at 12 per cent, not everyone can afford our usual rates," Mills says. "That's why we need the Buck Fuck...