Word: dependently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into the countryside will slow, and cars may even be banned in some places. The Highway Trust Fund, which has disbursed some $58 billion over the past two decades, was tapped by Congress for mass transit money this year for the first time. If gasoline remains scarce, states that depend on fuel taxes to fund local highway construction may end up with less money than projected; some planned highways may never be built. The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed banning cars from certain downtown business districts by 1977; many city dwellers, including not a few local businessmen, are in favor...
...slowing when the oil emergency and a coal miners' ban on overtime work caused the government to order drastic austerity. Now, says W.A.P. Manser, adviser to a London merchant bank, the political situation makes economic forecasting virtually impossible for the short term. The outcome for the year will depend not only on the Arabs but also on how long the government holds to a mandatory three-day week for industry -which in turn depends on its negotiations with the Mineworkers Union...
...aides are confident that Congress will not have hard evidence of "high crimes and misdemeanors"-the Constitution's grounds for impeachment. But some legal scholars claim that the President may be guilty of up to 78 impeachable offenses. Whether Congress tries him on any of them, however, will depend largely on what members learn about grassroots sentiment during their holiday...
...this week, then close down for a Christmas holiday, from Dec. 21 to Jan. 2. Thereafter, unless coal supplies increase, most industries and businesses will be on a three-day week determined by a rota system-half working Mondays through Wednesdays, the other half Thursdays through Saturdays. Industries that depend on a continuous supply of power, such as oil refineries and steel furnaces, will have to live with 65% of their normal ration. The food industry will be exempt from the restrictions, as will such essential services as railways, airports, doctors' offices and newspapers...
...factual points the movie might have made are inextricably mixed up in trappings that would have seemed awkward even in a creaky TV series like Foreign Intrigue. The existence of a double for Oswald is not made even dramatically credible; yet the movie and the assassination theory it implies depend crucially on that...