Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Absence had not made the congressional heart any fonder of the Carter energy program. The more members scrutinized it, the less they seemed to like it. Flaws were beginning to show through the rhetoric. Especially vulnerable was the $88 billion synthetic fuel plan. The House had already passed a much reduced version of the President's ambitious proposal, and Senator Scoop Jackson, chairman of the Energy Committee, was readying a bill of his own. "We want to get a real beginning on synthetic fuels," Jackson said. "There's a coalition forming of strong fiscal conservatives who say this...
Finally, Congress has less reason than ever to give the President what he wants because his support continues to crumble. During the recess, Arizona Congressman Morris Udall won applause whenever he told constituents that Carter should be given the benefit of the doubt, but he found that the same audiences favored Ted Kennedy over Carter by two to one. Democratic Congressman Dave Obey discovered that most of his Wisconsin constituents doubted that Carter would be reelected, though many of them wished he could be. Said Obey: "The people have not decided whether Carter is being worked over as a good...
This year we are working more on the concept of team play and less on individual skills," Baum said...
ABOVE is a course description from the Harvard University Course Catalogue. Pretty boring, isn't it? What's worse, it's not really all that informative. After all, it is only what the professor thinks his course is supposed to teach, no more and usually a lot less...
Oral literature throve in Ancient Greece and, less celbratedly among the ancient Celts and Mesopotamians, and even among some modern-day Yugoslavs. Harvard's lecture halls, with their crowds of literate students, would not seem fertile territory for this genre...