Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard, insisting that Kemp-Roth would require a 20% cut in federal spending and cause an "inflationary explosion." His name for his foe: "Big Business Boschwitz." One Anderson TV ad portrays Boschwitz as a cigar-smoking, pin-striped fat cat riding in a careering black limousine, forcing pedestrians to leap out of the way. Anderson also does not hesitate to remind voters that Boschwitz was state chairman for Nixon-Agnew in 1968. Complains Boschwitz: "Guilt by association. I thought that went out with Joe McCarthy." Anderson's tough tactics seem to have improved his prospects: the latest Minnesota poll...
...sign up for 16 hours of classwork and 35 hours in the air at an FAA- approved school to obtain a private pilot's license. A commercial license requires more: between $3,500 and $4,000 and 250 hours of flight time. But it is a cosmic leap from this to an Air Transport rating of 1,500 flying hours minimum followed by specialized instruction for particular aircraft types...
...which was suppressed in committee last summer by pressure from the medical lobby. Carter probably figures he has nothing to lose politically since the public is angry about inflation in general and about soaring medical costs in particular. In August, hospital costs rose .9%, second only to the 1.1% leap in gasoline prices. Carter originally asked for a 9% ceiling on annual hospital cost increases. Compromise bills have now been proposed, but all of them face an uphill fight. Complains a congressional insider: "The White House guys came out of Camp David and think they can work miracles. They...
...being chronological) boasts the O'Jays at the Hynes Auditorium at 8, with tickets running from $8.50 in advance to $9.50 at the gate. Sources say the group is not related to O. J. Simpson, although members of the band have been known to run madly through airports and leap over startled redcaps...
Strong feelings and forensics to match are commonplace when names are at stake-and they seem to be at stake all the time and all over the place in the U.S. The necessity of naming 3 million babies a year is only one source of nameless stress. Americans continually leap into flaps and furors over the naming and renaming of things and places. It amounts to a national obsession, or craze, or fascination, or mania-name it what you will-and it seems to be getting livelier all the time...