Word: injection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about 40? now. Home heating fuel could climb as high as 40? per gal., almost double its current level, and jet fuel, kerosene, propane and other petroleum products will rise proportionately. Officials of the Cost of Living Council estimate that increases in the price of oil imports alone will inject about $5 billion of pure inflation into the economy, substantially raising already oppressive living costs. And, says COLC Staffer Charles Owens: "That is just the first hop of this frog...
...Department to enforce these laws more vigorously? Probably not. The spirit of enforcement, if it indeed exists at Justice, got put there after the embarrassment of the initial Watergate investigation, which uncovered conspiracy limited to seven men. If anything, knocking over a king-pin like Agnew may tend to inject a little complacency into the department...
...same bed with a drunken stranger. In NBC's The Girl with Something Extra, E.S.P. is the coyly reconcilable difference between Newlyweds Sally Field (the former Flying Nun) and John Davidson. ABC's Adam's Rib, based on the 1949 Tracy and Hepburn film, claims to inject a touch of Women's Lib, with Blythe Danner and Ken Howard as a lady lawyer and her lawyer husband. Example of feminist viewpoint in first episode: to prove that men are allowed to pick up women while women who pick up men are presumed to be prostitutes, Danner...
...hoped that the British entry this year into the Common Market -blocked for twelve years by the French-would inject a renewed sense of purpose that would encourage a compromise between France and Germany. But now, according to The Netherlands' Prime Minister Joop den Uyl, "there is a feeling of disappointment. All the problems have come back within the enlarged Community." For this reason, many Britons are already voicing second thoughts about their long-debated decision to "join Europe...
Somebody here knows how seductive movies are. He knows how their emotional immediacy can inject the message into your bloodstream before you have time to consider the issues raised. And this somebody is laying it extra heavy on the 'liberation' in the movie. It is as if he had just discovered dynamite in Ibsen's ending and blasted it off for real...