Word: cornucopias
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There can be no doubt of the act's importance. It aims at nothing less than the end of pollution of U.S. waterways by 1985. The problem is money. Congress provides a cornucopia-the act calls for spending of $24.6 billion over the next three fiscal years. That amount is almost three times as much as the White House has recommended. Indeed, Administration experts term the act "inflationary," and some have publicly advised the President to veto...
This bursting cornucopia is not likely to result in quick or major cuts in food prices. Feed for hogs and cattle will be cheaper as a result of the bumper corn crop. But farmers reduced their hog production last year because of low prices and high feed costs caused by the blight. The effect of their decision will be felt in stores early next year and will probably make bacon, sausage and other pork products slightly costlier than now. More cattle will be raised this year, but this beefed-up production will not be reflected in meat-counter prices...
...Fellini journey, reality is only a pebble in the shoe. He turns the world into his circus and, in a liberated, quasi-documentary style, resurrects some of history's great pagliacci with their cornucopia of practical jokes, smashed hats, pulled chairs, popping balloons and squirting flowers. Fellini's pretense is to restore the icons of his youth for the pleasure of today's children, but beyond the easy delights is a philosophy clearly aimed at adults...
...cost is high, but adversity has its uses: the recession has played a major role in the calming of America. Looking for a job takes precedence over looking for trouble. Unemployment undermines the counterculture's confidence in a cornucopia able to feed forever both the straights and the dropouts. And in subtler ways the recession has lowered the general tolerance for uproar, enhancing the concern for private welfare at the expense of political concerns and street theatrics. Sidewalks are too narrow for protest marchers and food stamp lines...
...what it can do. It cannot give them subsidies or generous tax relief because the sheer numbers of people involved would make the cost out of sight. At the President's order, Administration leaders are closely studying a much-discussed memo written by Assistant Secretary Rosow, who has a cornucopia of ideas. All of them fall far short of labor youth's demands but meet specific needs of their elders. The Administration, for instance, is considering legislation for the Government to regulate corporate pension plans more closely and require that all of them be vested, becoming the workers' property after...