Word: highers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...substantial fear is that a higher defense budget would fuel inflation. Insisted Maine's Edmund Muskie in a mid-September Senate speech: "The enemy who has the capacity ... to devastate the economy?the defense budget, the Government's overall budget?is not the Soviet Union or any other enemy I can foresee...
Eisenhower would like to see congressional terms limited and he is an advocate of the single six-year presidential term. Such restrictions might, in his view, restore a higher degree of courage to our process. "We should have had energy ra tioning three years ago," he said. "I mean the right kind of rationing that would cut waste...
...Premier grossly underestimated the unpopularity of higher taxes. Early in the campaign he had said that the government would have to consider easing Japan's $70 billion deficit with a zozei, a stiff tax increase, either on personal income or consumer goods. Stung by a vociferous backlash against new taxes, Ohira tried to soft-pedal the issue just before the election, but by then it was too late. Although Ohira can safely ignore demands that he resign, to form a Cabinet he will probably have to surrender some prized ministerial portfolios to the disgruntled powerbrokers who head rival factions...
...film. The opening of The Marriage of Maria Braun is a particular gem: as our eyes take in an Adolf Hitler wall poster, the image explodes to reveal a full-dress wedding in the midst of a bombing attack. From this incongruous tableau, the director moves on to ever higher lunacy. Audiences never know when he will cut away from a tense dramatic exchange to a closeup of a pack of Camels...
...mates? Yes, concludes a Penn State study, but they get more emotional satisfaction out of the affair. Of 205 men and women-all recently separated or divorced-surveyed by Sociologist Graham Spanier, more than a third said they had cheated during marriage (38% males, 37% females). But a much higher percentage of the straying women said they found their adventures very satisfactory (57% to the males' 34%). The women paid the price for being satisfied; they reported almost twice as much guilt as men. Spanier says that might prove one of two things: either women express their sexual needs...