Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus the presidential parade passes by, all but meaningless except to the can didates, the political groupies, the press. On the windblown streets, with snow stacked at the curbs and down the center strip, people all seem to be blimp-shaped, wrapped in navy or rust or blue quilted suits. In motels, freezing guests set thermostats at 90°-but the mercury never touches 60° all night...
...budget-chopping mood. He has pushed some increases through the Congress, with total aid outlays of $5.1 billion for fiscal 1978 and $5.9 billion for fiscal 1979. His current budget proposes just over $6 billion for fiscal 1980, and would have been higher, a White House spokesman said, except that larger sums "might have raised the profile of foreign aid and made it even more vulnerable." The proposed 1980 budget is vulnerable enough. While the President shuttled between Cairo and Jerusalem, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was recommending aid cuts of more than $700 million...
...kickbacks allegedly worked this way: manufacturers quoted a high official wholesale price but then made illicit payments to their U.S. importers that enabled them to undercut the retail price of American-made TVs by as much as $100. Customs officials and Government lawyers say that virtually all Japanese manufacturers except Sony are implicated...
Maui's magic is as potent as ever, except that today he casts his net at the malihinis, the strangers from all over who swarm to his Valley Island by the thousands, bearing millions. They do not come to Maui for the Don Ho-hula-grass skirt-sarong-muumuu-mai tai-lei-and-luau scenario that, in mainlanders' eyes at least, has become to Hawaii what Mickey Mouse is to Disney World or the one-armed bandit to Las Vegas. They come for some of the world's most spectacular scenery and a variety of activities unmatched...
...concept of political dissent as a symptom of mental illness is hard to imagine except as an obscenity. Bukovsky is properly outraged, both as victim and witness. But he is also bitterly amusing. For unlike most children of the Gulag, the au thor manages to combine the traditions of Dostoyevsky's brooding victims with Gogol's antic farceurs. The more benign psychiatrists, he notes, diagnosed opposition as a mild form of paranoia that did not require special treatment. The hardliners called it "creeping schizophrenia" and prescribed agonizing sulfur injections...