Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moreover, it became abundantly clear last week that without some form of emergency federal assistance, New York will go into default by Christmas and quite possibly earlier-meaning that the city will have to postpone paying off its bills and loans. Said Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn, chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corp.: "The dikes are crumbling and we're running out of fingers." Added New York Governor Hugh Carey: "We have done all that we can to help New York City...
...even tried to win approval of a tax on beer, though his own administration had worked feverishly last year to prevent two breweries from leaving the city. Writes Ken Auletta, a sometime Democratic Party official who is a vocal critic of New York's government: "The city's unique form of socialism just doesn't work in a general capitalist economy. People who cannot afford it, after all, have a choice: they don't have to live or keep their job-producing business here...
Ford's pre-emptive first strike on the issue of tax and spending cuts seemed like shrewd economics as well as clever politics. On the one hand, most economists, including a good many conservatives, are persuaded that more stimulus, in the form of bigger tax breaks, will be needed in the future to ensure that the recovery continues. At the same time, even liberals will find it hard to deny that some effort to hold down federal spending is necessary. However, some economists wonder whether Ford's challenge will have the intended impact on Capitol Hill. For instance...
...many males, a gun law would be a form of castration, he said, adding he is asking for "a change in a value system...
...POPULARITY OF Swept Away rests partially on its use of this romantic form, which mirrors people's fantasies. But its appeal lies more in Wertmuller's extraordinary ability to realize this fantasy through her camera and her actors, inextricably involving the audience with her characters. Wertmuller has said that she makes political films to reach a mass audience, by which she presumably means the working class. If Swept Away does reach a mass audience, as its current success suggests it may, no working class viewer will recognize its political intentions. He will only see a great love story reaffirming sexist...