Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's interest in reducing bureaucracy is a constant theme, and his appointees respond to it eagerly. On Sept. 12, 1977, Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland reported that he had attended 45 hours of hearings on the 1978 budget for the Agriculture Department. "At present," the minutes note, "he said that the USDA is 'a mess...
According to their campaign literature, the Hedonists believe in "constant physical contact between genders, oral surgery for Jimmy Carter, total use of beer, wine, thai sticks, ganja cigarettes, quaaludes, THC, LSD as the Bill of Rights," among other points. They insist they are very serious about the campaign...
...with everything else for the defense on Saturday, the odds were with Harvard. UMass amassed only 79 yards in the air, which very well might have been 279 were it not for the line's constant pressure and the batting-down efforts of Potysman and Cordova...
Finally, in 1966, five decades of South Africa's constant tightening of its stranglehold over Namibia led the U.N., with Western support, to revoke South Africa's mandate to govern Namibia. But when a U.N. civilian group attempted to enter the territory to take over administration, South Africa quickly occupied the country with 10,000 troops and told the U.N. to stay...
...first-class scientists who are destined not to win a Nobel Prize." In part, she notes, these omissions are inevitable, because the number of scientists worldwide has grown some 30 times, while the number of science-prize recipients each year (seldom more than six) has remained more or less constant...