Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gold, 45, former press secretary to Spiro Agnew. Gold, who appears in 97 papers, dislikes the conservative label, describes himself as a "smartass iconoclast" at a time when "most icons are liberal." Gold's work thus far has been heavier on vitriol than substance. He spent two columns attacking the new reverence for Harry Truman ("I'm tired of all this crap about cuddly old Harry"), and he uses Nelson Rockefeller as a prime whipping boy. He has not addressed the impeachment question, other than to offer one veiled suggestion that Congress "go with the Madison Plan [impeachment...
Electric cars are quiet, relatively un-polluting, and in theory can be as much as $500 a year cheaper to operate than conventional gasoline-burners. They also are generally heavier, slower and, most important, can run only 50 miles or so before they must be recharged. So far, those drawbacks have been fatal to the development of any large market. Since the early 1900s, the electric vehicle has been limited to such specialty uses as the beetle-like golf carts that purr around the nation's fairways. Now that recent gasoline shortages have forced Americans to take a second...
...with the burden falling heaviest on the biggest earners. Thus, a $25,000-a-year earner who had been paying roughly $8,000 a year in taxes will now pay about $500 more. Those earning $7,200 and under will pay marginally less. There will be heavier levies on luxuries such as liquor (48? more for a 26-oz. bottle of gin, to $6.24), cigarettes (12? more a pack, to 78?) and beer (2½? a pint, to 48?). Meanwhile, nearly $1.2 billion in subsidies will be spent in an effort to reduce retail food prices (especially bread and milk...
...however, for two aggressive men not to covet the major credit for a success as gaudy as Paramount's. A recent 16-page advertising flyer-approved by Yablans -for new studio productions displays his photograph but fails to mention Evans at all. The brotherly yoke may be getting heavier...
...regulations may have a great effect on the total amount of teaching done. The positions vacated by first-year students, barred under the new guidelines from teaching, should presumably be filled by more advanced students taking heavier loads...