Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have little difficulty assuring passage of the gas tax. In part the product of a 22-month campaign by Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis to persuade the President to levy a tax that would raise money for repairing the nation's tattered transportation arteries, the proposal received almost instant bipartisan support. The Administration plan, expected to be sent up to Congress this week, envisions a 5? levy on refiners, to be passed through to motorists at the pump, that would increase the total federal gas tax to 9? per gal. and cost the average driver an additional...
...shirt was standing near the entrance, listening to the sounds coming from within. It was George ("Kid Sheik") Colar, 74, a veteran trumpet player with a ready grin and an infectious laugh. Would he recognize me after so long? "Sheik!" The face turned, the eyes looked puzzled for an instant behind their black-rimmed glasses. Then that wonderful laugh shattered the silence...
...dressed in fatigues, there had clearly never been a Veterans Day quite like this. "How are the Green Berets different?" piped up former Sergeant Mark Atchison. Tougher? Smarter? No. "We believed it. We tried to win their hearts and minds. We never called 'em 'gooks.' " An instant later at the bar an argument about a shoulder patch turned into an abortive brawl. "A lot of people here," suggested Russ Lindley, a long-haired ex-paratrooper, "are letting it out for the first time...
...Careers will be made or broken and alliances concluded or undone over new proposals to revitalize the economy. But change will not come easily. Brezhnev's most unwelcome legacy has been the debacle down on the farm. Says a Soviet journalist: "The new man in the Kremlin will have instant popular support if he can solve the food problems." But unless truly radical changes are made in the centrally planned collective farm system, agriculture is probably doomed to remain the disaster area of the economy...