Word: higher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...higher than anything anybody had ever seen," said Davis Jackson, head of the Country Club Plaza, the sprawling downtown hotel and shopping complex. "No one had ever thought they would live long enough to see it." When the flood receded hours later, 24 were dead, 1,200 were homeless, and damage was estimated at $50 million...
...general the bill that is coming out of the Senate would mean higher fuel prices for consumers, a possible end to big gas-drinking cars and some gains for environmentalists. Among the provisions of the Administration program facing changes...
...with 3 moderates taking control. They no longer publicly race-bait and plunder the system in the fashion of their predecessors, but David I. Finegan. John McDonough and Kathleen Sullivan have proven to be a disappointment. Unpaid school committee membership is usually regarded as a springboard for higher office; with visions of the mayoralty dancing in their heads, the committee members failed to rise above the soap box and job recommendation mentality...
...used to think you could use inflation to cut down unemployment, but if anyone wants a future in politics, they'd better learn one of the lessons of the past. And that is: if you let your public expenditures rise too much, you'll not only have higher inflation, you'll have higher unemployment as well...
...Primarily, says the NERC, because "overlapping and conflicting" Government regulations delay construction of generating and transmission facilities. The utilities especially complain that "lack of timely and adequate rate relief (meaning approval of higher rates) endangers their ability to raise the $250 billion to $300 billion of new construction capital required in the next ten years. Also, the utilities foresee a fuel shortage. Meeting the nation's power needs, says the NERC, would require more than doubling coal output, to 1.3 billion tons by 1986. The utilities demand that the Government move faster in leasing federally owned Western land...