Word: gets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congress are being pulled in two incompatible directions. While inflation continues to roar along at an annual rate of 13%, the clouds of recession are fast gathering. Tight fiscal and monetary policies that can curb inflation may aggravate unemployment. "Poor Carter," said an aide. "He can't even get the timing of the recession to break in his favor. If the economy were really going soft now, he would solve it with some stimulus this fall and the recession might be over by spring. Instead of that, the recession will hit with full force in late fall and winter...
...cold weather comes, the price of home heating oil is going to be a shock," he says. Sears has an ally in former Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, who suggests that $1 a gallon for heating oil will be "a political disaster" in New England. Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Kansas get mighty cold too. Schlesinger also has a hunch that our chief supplier of imported oil, Saudi Arabia, will have something to say within these months on whether it will keep its production at the current rate or begin to cut back. And, Sears wonders, "is the U.S. going...
...state of mind of Louisiana Senator Russell Long will be critical too. The White House feels he will help it get an oil windfall profits tax by Thanksgiving. Long has muttered privately that it will not be that easy and it will not be that quick. His message will arrive with the Christmas carols...
...home at 5 p.m. Complains a White House aide: "Fritz has no staying power. You give him an assignment, an area to oversee, and after a few months he loses interest." The same staffer insists that Mondale never pushes contrary ideas on the President. "Jimmy would love to get a good argument out of him, but every time we think Fritz is going to dig in his heels, he caves...
...approaches got a bit dicey. Said he: "One night I'm standing at the door of this busy nightclub, and up comes a guy with this great bloody carpet over his shoulder. He says he's got something to show me. So I tell him to get the hell out of the doorway and meet me in the basement. He unrolls the carpet and there's four Winchester rifles" plus submachine guns and handguns. McMullen angrily told the supplier to bring the guns next time to his apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens. But he nonetheless bought...