Word: feds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fed Up. Just a month ago, Beame had announced that the city's fiscal crisis was largely over. His premature optimism was based on New York State's creation of Big Mac with the authority to convert the city's short-term notes into long-term securities. Few thought that the corporation's nine illustrious voting members would have trouble marketing its bonds. To their surprise, Big Mac members discovered that many investors were unwilling to buy their offerings. Even though Big Mac bonds were secured by revenues from the city sales and stock-transfer taxes...
...contrast to an 85.2% increase in the city's private sector. For four days and almost as many nights, the negotiations rum bled on, punctuated by occasional outbursts that could be heard through the closed hotel room doors. "For Christ's sake!" ... "F___ that!" ... "I'm fed up with Gotbaum!" ... "If you think there's garbage in the streets now!" ... "No! I want to negotiate!" Finally, the door opened and out filed the combatants looking no grimmer than usual. "That's normal collective bargaining," remarked a labor consultant with a smile...
...Voting Rights Act of 1965 had largely settled the issue, imposing fed eral supervision on any state where fewer than half the voters were registered and literacy tests were required...
...lowered its previous estimate of the Soviet grain crop by 10 million tons, to 185 million. Butz now believes that the Soviets could eventually be in the market for 19 million tons-an amount equal to the 1972 purchases, which would raise prices of cereals, bakery products and grain-fed meat animals. At least some Administration officials would urge President Ford to stop any huge second round of grain sales. And last week the Agriculture Department ordered U.S. grain-export firms to advise it before beginning any new negotiations with Soviet buyers...
...charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with which you would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid long, slow slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling...