Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Less sanguine is Washington Economic Consultant Robert Nathan, who argues that "Proposition 13 has more to do with a feeling of government inefficiency" than with the tax bills. "I doubt that California can live with the kind of cut in services that is expected," says Nathan, "and I expect an eventual rise in income taxes and other business taxes...
...will, which Solzhenitsyn talked to us about at Harvard on that June day in the cool rain. We have lost it, he told us, as though he had questioned us and knew our minds. But he had not questioned us and he did not know our minds. It is less than 40 years since the Second World War faced us with an issue which would have torn us apart had we not been free and so answerable to ourselves and to each other. We resolved that issue. We reached an agreement with each other about what...
...terrible 20th century. This explains the Solzhenitsyn cult. He is fashionable; he is our Savonarola. I do not believe everything he says about Western society, although it is useful to hear his strictures; they make us think. Relatively speaking, however, I think America has good qualities, perhaps less operative now than they might be, but inherent, nonetheless. I would rather live in America than anywhere else I could think of- and so, evidently, would Solzhenitsyn...
...respondents proved to be remarkably honest: less than 1% broke the rules by filing more than one application. Among them was a man in Fresno, Calif., who apparently thought he was entering a contest. He bought 125 newspapers, completed the forms and mailed them all in. When the refund checks went out, one was sent to him-for $6.30, far less than what he had paid for the newspapers...
There was some truth to Izvestiya's fiction. As some Washington officials tacitly conceded last week, the lady vice consul had indeed been involved in some Moscow capers of a type that are more or less routine in the murky world of espionage. She was a CIA agent operating under diplomatic cover in Moscow. Nabbed by Soviet counterintelligence last July, she was photographed with an array of spy gear and quietly allowed to leave the U.S.S.R. under diplomatic immunity. She was reassigned to Washington. Hours after the appearance of the Izvestiya story, the State Department instructed...