Word: feds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...historical monuments. It seemed as though the Italians had very little pride in their priceless surroundings. Perhaps one of the things I will most remember about Rome is that while standing in the Colosseum in the midst of newspapers, magazines and watermelon rinds, I watched as a man fed perhaps 30 cats, which were apparently being kept in order to control the rat population...
Perception Two: Scammon-Wattenberg has become somewhat beside the point; as the outpouring of voles for George Wallace and McGovern proved through the spring, Americans are in a mood of restless malaise, fed up with the war, with "big government" and "big business," with institutions that do not seem to work. Such a foul public temper is dangerous for any incumbent. In this climate, the reasoning goes, McGovern is eminently electable; Ihe conventional political wisdom does nol hold any longer...
...voice on radio or TV or in any of the numerous settings where lies may be told: in a police station, perhaps, at a press conference, on the speaker's platform at a political meeting, or in the bedroom of a married-or unmarried couple. The tape is fed into a machine that measures muscular micro-tremors in the voice, faint quivers that come from the muscles in the voice box and cause slight changes in pitch. Changes are not detectable by ear, but they can be traced on a chart by a pen linked to the machine...
WHATEVER their political persuasion, economists say almost to a man that a federal tax increase will be needed next year to pay for Government projects already in the works. Scarcely a politician can afford to agree-publicly. Too many voters seem fed up with the present tax system, convinced that what is needed is not a rise in their own taxes, but a plugging of loopholes that allow the rich to avoid a good part of their rightful obligation. Thus any general tax increase levied in the next couple of years will probably be preceded by an overhaul...
...even do it for the money. I did it to get out." Adds Giinter Zoller, who defected during the European figure-skating championships at Goteborg, Sweden, last January: "From the age of 13, I was reared for medals. The time comes when you're fed up with...