Word: injection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local bonds. Says State Treasurer Rodney Scribner: "We've been scampering around and plugging the leaks like the proverbial little Dutch boy." Adds Millinocket Town Manager Michael La Chance, who saw two of his town's $500,000 borrowings collapse: "We're hoping someone will inject a note of common sense. Until that happens, it's an economic disaster...
...other." Adds Journalism Professor Edward P. Bassett of the University of Southern California: "All that's needed is an interlocutor who can keep them at each other's throat." But another panelist, New Yorker Correspondent Elizabeth Drew, disagrees. Says she: "At least we had the opportunity to inject reality. I don't think it would be too good to have Ford saying, 'Jimmy, is it true you want to increase spending to the sky?' Or Carter asking, 'Mr. Ford, why don't you put Americans to work...
...aspects of their business, from wellhead to gas pump, has given the industry too much power to manipulate supplies and prices and reap excessive profits at the expense of consumers. During the past year or so, the efforts of congressional Democrats to curb the companies' clout and inject more competition into the industry has gained increasing support. Last week, in the most far-reaching move yet, the Senate Judiciary Committee, by a vote of 8 to 7, sent to the full Senate a bill requiring the breakup of the 18 largest oil corporations...
...danger of anyone calling Flindt stuffy. The Lesson, his choreographic debut, was a startlingly effective piece about a psychopathic ballet master. Although Flindt has kept the cherished classics like La Sylphide and Napoli well polished, he has introduced the "modern feet" of Paul Taylor and Murray Louis. Trying to inject more reality in Danish ballet, he decided on a more sexual, dynamic, aggressive approach. One result was Triumph of Death, inspired by Ionesco's play Jeux de Massacre. When word leaked that it called for nudity, many feared for the Danes' long heritage of restrained artistry. Never before...
Nothing arouses more fascination, suspicion and questions than Carter's deep-seated religious convictions. He contends that he does not inject them into his campaigning. But the two are inescapably intertwined, producing a blend of William Jennings Bryan's religious fervor and Woodrow Wilson's moral idealism...