Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...budget, Rabin did not pressure Ford for an increase. "The important thing is the quantity of arms, not money," said one Israeli official. "Once we get the right amount of arms, the money will be found to pay for them." As Kissinger breezily put it, "What's a mere $500 million between friends...
...Doonesbury the real and the fictive combine, and actuality blends into commentary. The results are often closer to truth than mere news reports. A week ago, for instance, a presidential aide was complaining in Doonesbury that the congressional report on CIA assassination plots did not give the agency proper credit for bumping off Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco last fall: "He was giving us some trouble over our bases in Spain, so in 1963 one of our agents poisoned him with a time-release capsule. It reached full potency last November." "Really? ... That's amazing," says an incredulous...
Unlike the Democrats, most Iowa Republicans were not called upon to express a preference for a candidate at their precinct caucuses. But a straw poll of 583 voters-in 2.5% of all the precincts-was taken at 62 precincts. President Ford was favored over Ronald Reagan by a mere 45% to 42.5%. It appeared to be a setback for the President, who had the backing of popular Republican Governor Robert...
...boosts came in the midst of the recession, and would-be passengers saved money by staying home. Air travel in the U.S. had increased by 14% a year through the late '60s, then flattened out, but jumped 12% in 1972. It rose 6% in 1973, a mere 1% in 1974, and last year showed almost no growth at all. Pan Am, Eastern, American and Trans World Airlines plunged deep into the red. Not surprisingly, airlines ordered few new jets. Even United, the biggest U.S. airline and one that is still flying at a profit, could not justify more planes...
Unfortunately, many people do consider a veto to be a negative action. I don't think it is. In the first place, the veto was put into the Constitution to give a President an opportunity to tell a Congress that a mere majority vote in both the House and Senate doesn't necessarily mean it is in the best interests of the country as a whole. A veto tells the Congress, "You had better think about it, and if you want to override it, you have to do better than 51%, and you have to have two-thirds...