Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are, of course, drawbacks. The political difficulties of enacting a gas tax would be enormous. Such potent forces as the automakers, the autoworkers, the teamsters and the farmers, among others, are dead set against it. A gas levy would cut into sales of new cars and might damage parts...
Pincus also discussed the enormous influence the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee has on "its direction and tone," and said had Sen. John D. Sparkman (D-Ala) or Sen. George Aiken (R-Vt) chaired the committee during the Vietnam years, it would never have "taken on the administration" the...
Rosengarten is operating on some tricky assumptions in his book: if Nate Shaw is a typical black Southerner, only with an unusual mind, then in telling his own story he is also telling the story of all other black Southerners as well. His smallest action, if seen as typical of...
"The world produces about 1200 million tons of cereals every year. It takes about 25 million additional tons every year just to stay level," he said. "So you see that the 28 million tons the Soviet Union purchased was an enormous factor in the existence of the world reserves," he...
Typical Conference solutions assume for instance, that the poor countries can only expect to become more dependent and indebted to the West, and not just for the oil and fertilizer supplies (the consequences of which have already been devastating). Even giving away food creates problems with production incentives and reduces...