Word: extract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vanilla Extract. Most school officials are too embarrassed by the alcohol problem to do much more than reluctantly admit that it exists. One system that has faced up to it and conducted reliable surveys is in the suburban county of San Mateo, south of San Francisco. There, in 1970, school officials found, 11 % of the ninth grade boys (13-and 14-year-olds) said that they had drunk some kind of alcoholic beverage 50 or more tunes in the past year; in 1973 the figure had jumped to 23%. Among senior class boys (17-and 18-year-olds) the percentage...
...office, finds it easier than her husband might to hide her habit. One alcoholic housewife in Miami admitted stashing Clorets in every jacket pocket and downstairs drawer to disguise her liquor breath from unexpected callers. Others try to hide their alcoholic breath by sipping Listerine, Scope or vanilla extract...
...showdown was thus rapidly approaching over the committee's ability to extract evidence from the White House. Any failure by Nixon to comply with the subpoena would carry serious implications for him. Refusal to produce legally subpoenaed evidence creates an assumption that the withheld material is damaging to the withholder's case. In a sense, such an act forfeits the law's normal presumption of innocence until proved guilty. Rodino does not intend, however, to seek any immediate contempt of Congress citation against the President if he fails to honor the subpoena. That possibility would be held...
Instead, the various House and Senate committees extract those parts of the budget that bear on their special responsibilities and then rearrange items, raise or lower the dollar totals, or tuck in new projects. Rather than producing a final and coordinated budget, Congress normally passes 13 separate appropriations bills that fit no overall plan. Until they are added up, no one knows how big the budget will be or how much of a deficit it will cause...
...imagine? So we charged experts to study what prices we should put on oil. Do you know that from oil you have today 70,000 derivatives? When we empty our wells, then you will be denied what I call this noble product. It will take you $8 to extract your shale or tarsands. So I said let us start with the bottom price of $7; that is the government intake. Suddenly everybody started to shout foul. Why don't you use coal and shale for electricity or to heat houses, and keep this precious petrol for the petrochemicals...