Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keeping up constant pressure, Congress induced Ford to soften his adamant stand against giving aid to New York City until it declared bankruptcy, although the President also forced many cutbacks on the city. In another compromise with the White House, Congress floundered for a year before finally passing a makeshift energy bill that had many grave weaknesses...
...sardonic snap of the libretto's gallows humor is virtually untranslatable except through the music. Ullmann's eclectic style produces a constant interplay between the melancholic and the light comic in Germany's rich musical tradition. Death, in the shabby uniform of a Central European functionary, could be a sadly tired Wotan. The Emperor's edicts are sung in the piercing soprano of the German cabaret...
...week's Business story on the economic prospects for 1976. To protect his staff from scholarly hedging, Business Editor George Church started the meeting by dipping into his store of anecdotes. "After consulting the leading economists of his day about where the economy was going and getting a constant stream of forecasts of 'On the one hand this and on the other hand that,' Harry Truman allegedly said, 'Hell, what I need is a one-armed economist.' " Still, Reporter-Researchers Hilary Ostlere, Allan Hill and Sarah Button were struck by the almost universal comment...
...personally believe that the way to avoid tickets is to find a car with a citizen's band radio. You can tell by the extra-long antenna, and it means that the driver is in constant touch with a network of truckers and others who know where the cops are. I drove behind a car like this for three states over the summer. The guy would slow down, seemingly inexplicably, every now and then, and sure enough, a few miles on, we would pass a waiting state police...
...whole, they seem to be the only individuals in Cambridge who really enjoy themselves most of the time. Long life and good times to them; may they always be there, in the Yard, to keep us from losing sight of the obvious and the eternal in our constant grasping for the rarefied and ephemeral...