Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wexler's tactics seldom vary. First she pores through her bulging black notebooks that detail an issue's main features and its key advocates and critics. Then she invites interest groups to the White House to speak their minds. Later, potential supporters are asked back and told how they can aid the President on the issue. To help Carter's moribund energy bill, for example, Wexler last year met with at least 1,000 state officials and farm, urban, religious, business and. consumer leaders...
...question is, will these budget cuts slow inflation? Unfortunately, the answer is a qualified no. While the cuts may shave a little off the inflation rate, deficit spending is not the main source of inflation. As Carter himself has noted, several essential items such as food, housing, medical care and energy are the most pressing sources of inflation. Deficit spending may lower the amount of money in the economy and so affect aggregate demand slightly, but there is no guarantee that it will affect the inflation rate in the guilty sectors...
...virtually every French tennager. Far more American university t-shirts are seen in French villages than in American towns. American TV shows, very popular in France, give French teenagers new ideas about how to act and what to think. One day as I walked down the village's main street, a 10-year-old boy flashed me the thumbs-up sign and groaned, "Ayyyyyyyyy," a perfect imitation of his new hero, "the Fonz." American culture has also intruded its way into the French language, producing French-accented words like week-end, hold-up, stop, gas-oil, and blue-jeans...
...Today, the main policy is silence about Stalin. Soon there will be Stalin's centennial. There appeared until now only one small newspaper article, which was positive towards him, but admitted he made mistakes. Not that he was a criminal, only that he made mistakes. It said his mistakes will not return. The main part of it was positive, though...
...Women's Varsity Swimming [1-5] Clark 86-43W at Boston University 35-96L Boston College 57 74L Main 52-79L at Brown 38-93L Dartmouth...