Word: coms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...budgets are always rather dubious documents, based on tenuous guesstimates of anticipated revenues and expenditures. Even in this uncertain com pany, though, the spending plan for fiscal 1975 that President Nixon will un veil next month will stand out as an exceptionally shaky exercise in pondering the imponderable. The big unknown, of course, is the effect of the energy crisis, which could plunge the U.S. into a recession, slash Government tax revenues, and force big additional outlays for new job programs to ease the impact of unemployment. Whether or not Nixon formally proclaims the figure, the budget could well...
...measure resorted to a parliamentary trick and attached it to a crucial, though unrelated bill raising the federal debt ceiling. But the maneuver only angered many in the House who were at best unenthusiastic about the legislation. At the urging of Al Ullman of Oregon, the Rules Com mittee rejected the Senate's amendment; the House then turned it down by a decisive 347 to 54 vote...
Suddenly, architects both Japanese and American decided that a Nagare was just what they needed for their plazas, and he was overwhelmed with com missions. A Nagare dominates the plaza of San Francisco's Bank of America headquarters; a huge new sculpture will soon be installed at the entry of Manhattan's World Trade Center...
...quickly sought the Japanese giant's aid in marketing, of all things, TV sets in Japan, and embarrassed Sony executives had no choice but to comply. So, while Americans continue to buy great numbers of Sony and other Japanese TV sets, Motorola is about to give Sony some com petition in the Japanese mar ket for large-screen color...
...winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, an authentic soldiers' hero. But he reported the plot in detail to the House Un-American Activities Committee, then chaired by Massachusetts' John McCormack, later Speaker of the House. At the hearings, the gobe tweens denied everything, and the com mittee was simply afraid to call titans of finance as witnesses...