Word: golden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spent. Today unbounded bureaucracy, consuming ever more of the national income, is a problem endemic to the Western world. A fundamental question is how to support a huge welfare state without crippling the vigor of the free economy that makes it all possible ?the eagle that lays the golden eggs of welfare...
Giovanna waits at the appointed spot but Daniel fails to appear. Later he telephones again, and his golden voice soars passionately in the aria Incontriamoci in Via Veneto (Meet me on the Via Veneto...
...Sidney Harley Golden...
...envelope, please. And now, for the best performance by an American state legislature in the Much-Ado-About-Little category, the Golden Nit for 1978 goes...
This is the homestretch of the silly season, when state legislatures across the land seem to vie for the imaginary Golden Nit. There is nothing imaginary, though, about the time, effort and deliberation they customarily devote to the trivial, the insignificant, the utterly negligible. Nebraska's legislature, for example, has just dealt with a bill to add, as consumer representatives, two corpses to the state anatomical board: that passes for humor in Lincoln. Rhode Island's senators breezily adopted a resolution praising the hairdo of a female legislator, but the house turned aside a proposal to decree ricotta...