Word: enough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irritated the Soviets by openly proclaiming himself to be a hardliner, and he undermined himself with Washington by differing with Vance's policies, which Toon felt were not tough enough...
...truckers made several demands of the Carter Administration. First they wanted an increase in freight rates. The Interstate Commerce Commission permitted a 6% rate hike, but that was not enough, the truckers complained, to cover the boost in fuel costs since the beginning of the year. The independents insisted on an increase in their share of the diesel fuel that is allocated by the Department of Energy. The Government responded by lifting the regulation that allowed farmers to get all the diesel oil they needed. The Administration hopes that the change will allow the truckers to get more fuel without...
...independent owners were playing a hazardous game. They wanted to stir up enough trouble to pressure Washington into making the reforms they wanted. Perhaps more than they had anticipated, they were succeeding. "There's a lot of macho in all this," said Mac Vernon, a spokesman for the I.T.A. "They've got the image of being the last of the cowboys...
...than 58 votes for the treaty and 30 against, leaving twelve Senators wholly undecided. The opponents have similar head counts. Thus, for the moment, the treaty is in what Alaska's Ted Stevens, a Republican opponent, calls a "never-never land," a standoff in which treaty backers have enough votes to block crippling amendments or a filibuster but lack the 67 votes that constitute the two-thirds majority needed to approve the pact...
...substitute treaty. Said he of the one signed in Vienna: "Whatever else it is, it is not arms control." His feeling is shared by an unlikely ally, Liberal Democrat George McGovern of South Dakota, an advocate of disarmament who feels that SALT II does not go nearly far enough. "I don't think SALT II is worth fighting over," he said. "We ought to just scrap...