Word: high
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardly a surprise. But this time Schlesinger may have gone too far. His loyal sponsor, the President, finds Schlesinger's public hard line toward the Mexicans a liability, and when the energy czar last month repeated his view that Mexico's price for natural gas was too high, Carter was furious. His aides swiftly dissociated the President from the Secretary's speech...
...billion cu. ft. of gas per day to the U.S. at $2.60 per thousand cu. ft. More important, the deal would have helped speed up the development of the Mexican oil industry. But Schlesinger dumbfounded his visitors by stating that the proposal was unacceptable; the Mexican price was too high, he said. When his callers asked if he had a counteroffer to make, Schlesinger gruffly said he had none...
...crammed Senate committee room. The star witness read from a long typed statement in a soft hesitant voice. Each of the six Senators present seemed to want to get in a few words, and three had had their statements copied and distributed in advance. The subject of all this high drama: mental health...
...dealing with a crazed man, held their fire. Imaginatively, the police shouted back and forth with their own improvised military jargon: "A Company is located over there. B Company has been pulled back. C Company will move in." They pleaded with him to surrender. Perplexed, Coughlin, who had been high on drugs and alcohol the previous day, stood up and shouted, "Kill...
...Viet Nam veterans returned to the U.S. to face public neglect or, worse, characterization as criminals by antiwar protesters. Viet Nam veterans have higher rates of suicide, divorce and mental breakdown than the population at large. Many became drug addicts in Viet Nam, and unemployment among veterans has been high...