Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Finance Committee meetings, Long voted for three of the four principal taxes the President wants imposed. But he opposes the key conservation measure?a high tariff on industrial users of gas and oil. When the issue came up in the Senate last week, Long was in vintage form, giving that he might receive. A few days before the vote, Long's chief aide ?raising the specter of financial ruin for Louisiana industry?forecast the proposal's future with a Southern lilt: "The industrial user's tax is d-a-i-d, dead." Yet when the measure came...
Businessmen strongly oppose Nelson's scheme. But having them pay the lion's share of the increased taxes until the 21st century meets with the approval of Jimmy Carter?even though the extra costs would doubtless be passed along to consumers in the form of higher prices...
...Carter Administration's self-described "point man," Ambassador Andrew Young, took the lead at the U.N. last week by stating that he favored "some form of sanctions" against Pretoria. Young was accurately telegraphing the Administration's view. Referring to the South African crackdown at his Thursday press conference, President Carter declared: "I think it's important that we express in no uncertain terms our deep and legitimate concern about those actions ... my decision has been to support strong sanctions against the sale of weapons to South Africa...
...Reggie Jackson of Paris was Yves St. Laurent, who once again batted homers all the way to Bloomingdale's, Benders and Bergdorf s. But it was a markedly different Yves. Said he: "I have found a new form of simplicity." Turning his back on Cossacks and gypsies, he drew his inspiration from "the streets of New York." One YSL eyecatcher: a tricolored cotton shirt worn with sailcloth pants. His ready-to-wear clothes were modern, young and?with one or two see-through and derriere-baring exceptions?eminently wearable on Manhattan's avenues. That?if not his prices...
...geologists and biologists? had all but discredited the Ussher-Lightfoot calculations by 1859, when Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. Although Darwin did not discuss man in this work, the theory of evolution of species through natural selection suggested that human beings had evolved from some lower form of life. By implying that man was related to apes and monkeys, the great naturalist incurred the derision ?and wrath?of millions round the world. "Descended from apes!'' exclaimed the wife of the Bishop of Worcester when she heard the news in 1860. "Let us hope...