Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five men strolled so casually toward their getaway car that the tower guard assumed they were departing visitors. But on the next day the fugitives' car had a flat tire. Marine Sergeant John F. Lyons, 24, heading from his home in Yuma, Ariz., to visit relatives in Nebraska, stopped to help. Lyons, his wife Donnelda, 24, and their 22-month-old son Christopher were all shot to death. A niece of the Lyons, Teresa Tyson, 16 (no kin to the Tisons), was wounded in the hip and was later found in the desert, having bled to death...
...pass Carter's energy program, which would reduce oil imports and thus stem the drain of dollars out of the U.S. Indeed, Carter personally lobbied House members to work out a compromise to end a fierce dispute over natural gas pricing. Finally, they spoke of both a flat ban on any new federal programs and of cuts in existing ones. The goal: to pare the budget deficit for fiscal 1979 to roughly $40 billion, from the $48.5 billion projected at the start of the summer, as a way of controlling the inflation that is weakening the dollar...
Beyond its narrative difficulties, Vicki Polon's screenplay still leaves a lot to be desired. Polon is no wit, and her attempts to portray such overly familiar New Yorkers as SoHo art dealers, pushy cab drivers and Greenwich Village hipsters fall flat. Hot issues like lesbianism and abortion are dragged into the action for cheap effects rather than serious consideration. There is not a single memorable or startling line in the movie...
...year would have received a smaller reduction; those making less than $15,000 would have got a bigger break. The taxpayers in between would have fared about the same. The Administration bill also accepted the capital gains tax reduction but offered a complicated graduated minimum tax instead of the flat 10% minimum rate in the committee bill. Of all the reforms proposed by Carter, the only significant one to survive in the House was the elimination of deductions for state and local gasoline taxes from federal income taxes...
...really think is that it suddenly dawned on her that maybe the Russians would try to steal all her boats and in one fell sloop suddenly take over the shipping world. We also think that she had second thoughts about setting up housekeeping in Moscow, in a little flat with his mother, I mean, we couldn't picture Christina washing Sergei's socks and shorts in the kitchen sink and eating borsch on a table covered with an oilcloth, for heaven's sake...