Word: line
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Californians, having created an economy and culture almost totally dependent on the auto, are increasing their driving even more (as much as 9%) than Americans generally. Said Paul Lozoya, waiting in a Los Angeles gas line in a battered 1969 Chevy: "I'll drive, I'll drive. I'll have to cut somewhere else. Did you ever try walking around this goddam town? Ever try a bus?" (Angelenos voted down a proposal to build a $6 billion, 232-mile mass-transit system...
Were working like s.o.b.s," said House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "I've talked to them all, trying to keep them in line." It took all of O'Neill's persuasive powers last week to keep Jimmy Carter's unbalanced budget for fiscal 1980 from coming apart under twin assaults from big-spending Democrats and from budget-cutting Republicans. The palaver apparently paid off. The House budget resolution to be voted on this week differed only slightly from Carter's version...
...President went on, and he found that diesel-oil shortages had developed, and concerned farmers urged that some fuel priority be given for planting, cultivating and harvesting their crops. He promised them that food production would not be jeopardized. And then he landed in California, continued Carter. That line was self-explanatory. There was a rueful chuckle around the Cabinet table...
...remaining 20 or so members, who are genuinely undecided. Perhaps the two most important members of this swing group are the Senate's top party officials. Majority Leader Robert Byrd has carefully avoided committing himself. Said he: "I'll sit down and go over the treaty line by line and word by word." Active opposition by Byrd would probably doom the pact. Not so undecided is Minority Leader Howard Baker, whose backing last year was invaluable in the White House's successful drive for passage of the Panama Canal treaties. He told Carter last week that because...
...presidential election campaign, the treaty will be formally submitted to the Senate in early July. The SALT struggle will be a major test of Jimmy Carter's ability as a national leader. Even now his personal prestige could hardly be more completely on the line. He phoned Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger last week, offering them extensive private briefings on the accord. (So far, none of these Republican notables has offered to join the pro-treaty drive.) On the morning that the U.S.-Soviet agreement was announced, Carter was up at dawn to sign letters...