Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another week, gas stations almost everywhere kept short hours, closed on the weekend or limited sales to a few gallons because supplies were short, by 5% to 20% of 1978 levels. In most states it was enough of a pinch to make gasoline a major topic of concern, but not enough to force Americans to change lifestyles. In California, however, long lines of cars formed at every open pump, as angry and panicky motorists tried to buy every drop available...
Stubbornly independent, Randolph was not swept up in the ideological currents of his time, resisting both Communism and the black nationalism of Jamaican Organizer Marcus Garvey. He kept his own counsel, shunning Harlem's high society and enjoying the company of his wife Lucille, a former beauty parlor operator whose sprightliness contrasted with his own solemnity...
...World War II, he was stung by the fact that defense industries were deliberately excluding blacks from employment. After numerous conferences led nowhere, he threatened a mass march on Washington. He was hastily summoned to the White House, where President Roosevelt tried to outtalk him. "He kept cutting in, monopolizing the conversation," complained Randolph, who was not used to such treatment. Randolph refused to budge until an exasperated F.D.R. finally signed an Executive order banning discrimination in defense industries and Government employment...
...role in the region: I feel that the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty was important to the Republic of China [Taiwan] and also to the U.S. For the good of the U.S. as well as the republic, this treaty should be kept in effect. But President Carter has already announced his intention to terminate it at the end of this year. Congress has passed the Taiwan Relations Act, saying that the U.S. continues to be concerned about the security of the republic. I think that is very important in terms of the U.S. strategic position in this part...
...will seek to lower personal and corporate taxes next year by $15 to $30 billion. Though the President's anti-inflation wage-price guidelines have had only marginal success in holding down settlements for big unions, the majority of the board members would preserve them because they have kept wages of nonunion workers lower than they might have been...