Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Security funds and reforming the tax and welfare systems had been ignored or put off, largely because nobody had solutions that seemed workable or politically feasible. Like a quarterback who prefers the long bomb to the drudgery of three yards and a cloud of dust, the President threw a lot of comprehensive programs at Congress. Often his timing was poor, his leadership inadequate, his grasp of the politics shaky. But unquestionably Carter has made gains along with his celebrated setbacks...
House Republican Whip Robert Michel of Illinois exclaimed last week: "This is the biggest tax bill we've ever passed-bar anything! People out in the country are disturbed and incensed." Confided Illinois Republican Representative John Anderson: "A lot of fellows are worried about defending this bill in the fall campaigns...
...cars, trucks and motorcycles, total almost $30 million. Its advertising and specialty-gifts business netted $2.4 million last year; donations and other income amounted to another $5.5 million. Dederich draws an annual salary of $100,000 and pays his top corporate officers from $30,000 to $50,000. "A lot of guys could do this thing from an old Ford roadster and sit on an orange crate," he says, while munching on powdered lettuce from a silver bowl. "They're holy men; I'm not. I need a $17,000 Cadillac. We are in the people business just...
...phone in questions for the network's correspondents in Cairo. One Israeli woman wanted a description of Egyptian fashions. A listener from Haifa asked about poverty in Egypt and was told by his countryman on the scene: "There are some depressing sights here, but there have been a lot of improvements as well...
...site is a giant feed lot in central Florida where 20,000 cattle at a time are fattened. Their droppings will be placed into fermenter tanks filled with thermophilic (heat-loving) bacteria. As the bacteria ingest the manure at a temperature of 120°, they give off a gas that is 65% methane. Donald D. Kaplan, owner of the feed lot, says that the project is expected to provide enough fuel for all his own operations, which include a feed mill, packing house and rendering plant -with "enough left over to supply a good part of the city of Bartow...