Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next, Carter, continuing to follow the prepared scenario, appeared to yield, announcing a "restoration" of various funds. For example, he agreed to provide $1 billion more than the leaked estimate for public service jobs and some $150 million more in aid to the most economically depressed cities. Last week he raised the funds for education to $11.1 billion, which is about $1 billion more than was spent last year. He also restored $50 million for health programs, including basic research and preventive care for the poor. By seeming to give ground, Carter expects to take some of the punch...
...need for this whole recording is dubious, anyway. Translation makes good sense in the theater, where the listener has an immediate need to understand what's happening. But for home listening, it's easy enough to follow the German with the aid of a libretto. And doing so allows you to listen to singers and musicians of greater skill than the ENO group...
...auto companies are increasing prices for large, luxurious highway cruisers and holding them steady or reducing them for smaller cars. This week General Motors is raising prices an average of $137 on all its models except the sub-compact Chevette. Since Detroit traditionally plays follow-the-leader, Chrysler is raising prices an average $85 for all cars except the subcompact Omni and Horizon, and Ford is expected to post further increases...
...fours round his London home, ridden by a five-year-old grandson. Marx's strengths and weaknesses are carefully chronicled: the affectionate relationship with his daughters, the Promethean capacity for work, the hopeless improvidence with money, the raging, pitiless hatreds for fellow Socialists who failed to follow his dictates. The least familiar persona is Marx the philanderer. Here he is, at 43, unrestrainedly wooing his 24-year-old cousin during a fund-raising expedition to The Netherlands. Six years later, in 1867, he is passionately reciting poetry to an attractive gentlewoman during a similar expedition to Hanover...
...headed for the Coop elevator for a television interview, the crowd surged to follow her, and then dashed outside to the alley where a chauffeured limousine waited...