Word: concocted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There has been no attempt to concoct ridiculous hours," he said...
...After Illinois, Reagan trailed Ford by at least 54 delegates to 174. To give him even a remote chance of winning, his supporters had to concoct some farfetched scenarios. Noting that he had a 54%-to-37% lead in the latest poll in California, taken just before his loss in New Hampshire, California G.O.P. Vice Chairman Mike Montgomery doggedly maintained: "Take what delegates he has now, add California [167], and he's ahead." After
Station To Station could certainly have been composed in a month (much of it resembled "Fame," the hit single off Young American that took Bowie and John Lennon a scant 45 minutes to concoct) by a man suffering from terminal ennui, but I'm not complaining, well, not much anyway. The album is a testament to the efficiency of the Bowie machine. Stripped as he is here of many cherished pretentions (adrogynous messiah, apocalyptic visionary, etc.) and locked into a disco beat, Bowie can still captivate us. It's a creditable and also slightly curious accomplishment...
...nation, Carey ran into determined opposition to further increases. A proposed boost in the taxes on commuters to the city was batted down by upstate Republicans; a sales-tax increase (from 8% to 9% in the city) was rejected by city Democrats. In desperation, the legislators began to concoct what Senate Majority Leader Warren Anderson called a "bouillabaisse": a stew of taxes that added up to $205 million at the risk of offending most consumers in the city. In addition to an increase in the city income tax, the plan included higher levies on banks, automobiles and cigarettes...
...card show. Reason: those sweeping murals created in the stands by massed thousands of people holding up brightly colored cards are also a feature of sports events in China The one big difference there is that instead of producing innocent U.C.L.A.s and expanding Stanford s's, the Chinese concoct giant propaganda posters (see color) and execute them on a scale and with a precision-that is awesome...