Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fix, huh? Looking for a new athletic director but unable to come up with one, is that it? Well, look no further. I think I've found an answer to your dilemma...
Energy policy is not the only problem coming to a head for the Administration. Last week Carter reversed himself by abandoning his quick-fix approach to stimulating the economy with a $50 tax rebate for nearly every American. Having finished his review of 32 dams and other water projects that he had threatened to cancel, he again reversed himself by reprieving about a third of them outright and agreeing to the completion of parts of another third; he insisted that the rest be scrapped. He announced a mild anti-inflation program that offended neither labor leaders nor businessmen...
...under water on the outer continental shelf may be as high as 655 trillion cu. ft., which at current consumption rates for gas would meet U.S. needs for more than 30 years. But then again, says USGS, the resources might be less than half that much. Lacking a better fix, energy planners cannot estimate how much of the nation's requirements might be filled, and how quickly, if they overrode environmentalist objections and opened all the fields to drilling. Similarly, until there are better figures on all oil and gas reserves, no one can say how much production might...
...district officials fulfill sterilization quotas each month. As if this was not enough, during her campaign Gandhi blamed these officials for what actually had been Sanjay's excesses. This frightened members of the bureaucracy into supporting the opposition. It has even been suggested that worried government officials tried to 'fix' Indira's defeat...
...funds arrived two years later. But not until 1944 was the first B.A. degree awarded, marking Grambling's ascent from a teacher and trade school to a four-year college. Meanwhile Jones pioneered a field service that toured the backwoods, teaching such basics as hygiene and how to fix a harness. "We were asked off of some plantations," recalls Jones, "because they thought we were running their labor away. And [sharecroppers] did leave with the unit quite often because they wanted something better." On the side, Jones continued to coach baseball, as he still does, amassing over the years...