Word: erals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great gas-station battle, gas oline companies have long tried to win a larger share of the consumer's dollar by promoting a mystifying variety of cryptically named additives and other special ingredients that promise to per form a miracle in the tank. The Fed eral Trade Commission, investigating one aspect of the great gasoline war, plans to press for legislation to force the companies to post actual octane ratings on the pumps so that motorists will not have to buy higher octane than their cars need. Now the battle ground has expanded to another area of mystification...
Lately the status quo has been increasingly challenged by the courts, by citizens' groups such as the N.C.C.B. and at times even by the vacillating Fed eral Communications Commission. In one of his final decisions as an appeals court judge, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger set forth a new doctrine that makes the continued existence of TV stations contingent on performance...
...balk at paying for what some economists now call the "marriage of the warfare and the welfare states." When Johnson belatedly asked for a tax increase in 1967, Congress dallied for ten months before enacting it. By the time the sur charge took effect a year ago, the fed eral deficit had swelled to $25 billion...
...request was likely to go unhonored, if for no other reason than that the Italian Communists, who have great hopes for doing well in the next gen eral elections, fear the influence that the Brezhnev Doctrine would have on Italian voters. They can foresee their opponents' campaign slogan: "Put the Communists in power and the Red army will keep them there...
Under the guise of getting broad lib eral educations, my wife and I received credit for most of the aforementioned courses and at highly accredited Western universities, too. Admittedly, that coeducational ballroom-dancing class was tough; I pulled only a C. (Never could get my hips moving in time with the music during the merengue...