Word: loosest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservatives will vote in future showdowns is unknown. Their top priorities are a strong defense and a balanced budget. But they make no attempt to work out a unified position, and their organization is the loosest on Capitol Hill: the forum has no chairman, no staff, no offices, not even any set schedule for meeting. When a member wants a meeting, he notifies Charles Stenholm, a cotton farmer from Texas who has been designated "coordinator." At the meetings, members simply talk and break up without taking any nose counts...
...those who are already struggling merely to obtain, at inflated prices, the necessities of life. Closing tax loopholes is the more humane route. Last year, profits for 1200 American industrial corporations, banks and utilities surveyed by Business Week, rose an average of 22 per cent over 1978. The loosest belts should be tightened first...