Word: ev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demand for controls was very ev ident last week. The Senate defeated a move by liberal Democrats to give the President power to reinstitute wage-price restraints for another year. It gave preliminary approval - by only a 44-to-41 vote - to a much more limited measure granting authority to reimpose controls on companies that violate formal price-restraint agreements. But even that proposal must still get final approval in the Senate and then the House, where it faces strong opposition. AFL-CIO President George Meany and other union leaders are putting heavy pressure on Democrats to kill all controls...
...most loyal there is," says Haggard. Besides, the open road, the one-night gigs, meeting people-all these make a way of life that Haggard would no more give up than he would casting for smallmouthed bass in a cold, clear, wilderness lake. As he puts it in Ev 'ry Fool Has a Rainbow...
...Ev'ry time a dream is born...
Kempton attempts to heighten ev ery detail into the importance of gen eralized truth. "Michael Tabor," he writes of one defendant, "had an intensity that overrode mere precedents; by mere presence, now and then un abashedly malign, he enforced the illusion that the insulted had come to vengeance." The language is accurate enough in its grand way, but eventually the reader cares less about the defendants than about the author, gesticulating here and there in a peculiar kind of 18th century jive...
...today, there lies an array of bewilderingly complex domestic problems. The "miracle in the desert" has been transformed into a highly urbanized society; 85% of the Israelis now live in the nation's four largest cities, while only 4% still live in the kibbutzim. Zionist Writer Ze'ev Jabotinsky remarked in the 1920s: "We won't really be a country until we have Jewish policemen and Jewish prostitutes." Today Israel has both...