Word: keepings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nice that House Speaker Tip O'Neill thinks it "sinful" that the oil companies are making profits [Nov. 5]. At least they are doing something to help keep this country running. Can Congress say the same...
...high interest rates much longer than expected. The almost inevitable result: a deeper recession than so far forecast. Despite slumping growth, the nation's oil import bill, which is projected to total $61 billion this year, would leap to $96 billion in 1980. That in turn would keep the dollar's value dropping, while provoking yet more demands by oil states for compensating price increases. The vicious cycle would continue to drag the economies of the U.S. and the world down and down...
...living room, the grand piano is covered with mementos of show business days, photographs of Old Friends Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope and Edgar Bergen. On the end tables are small glass dishes filled with the jelly beans that became his trademark as Governor. They are intended for guests. To keep down his weight, he rarely eats them now. Reagan is dressed casually, in slacks, a blue V-neck sweater and velvet slippers embossed with back-to-back gold...
...used to fantasize what it would be like if everyone in Government would quietly slip away and close the doors and disappear. See how long it would take the people of this country to miss them. I think that life would go on, and the people would keep right on doing the things they are doing, and we would get along a lot better than we think...
...business community reacted favorably to the plan, even though many executives question whether the Government can keep a secret. Others fear that even if the Government can, competitors may be able to gain confidential marketing information from the department under the Freedom of Information...