Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprised that the "U.S. has lost its power to do almost anything it wanted around the world." It must convince other nations that the U.S. has their interests in mind rather than looking on them as just a source...
Yeah, I'd feel the "U.S. [tax] system is fair and equitable" too if I were Henry and Richard Bloch with their $81 million [March 12]. When better than half of all taxpayers seek out professional tax preparers to guide them through the mind-stunning incomprehensibility and convoluted jargon, one understands why our present tax code is referred to as the "C.P.A.s' and Tax Preparers' Relief...
White House aides insist that Carter has not yet made up his mind. He could take the dramatic step of immediate decontrol, or he could choose the more modest, but politically safer option of gradually lifting controls on specified types of U.S. oil over two years. Carter is likely to ask Congress to include an excess profits tax that would prevent the oil companies from reaping a sudden bonanza. But whether he will urge that this tax be rebated to low-income families, be set aside for oil exploration or used to reduce his budget deficit apparently was undecided last...
...records, feigned confusion and phony definitions of words and phrases. One way or another, it was all designed to obscure the truth. One way or another, it was all done in the name of the greater national interest. But in the end, it all came down in the American mind to a short, blunt outrage-lying...
...film also depicts the utility company that owns the plant and the contractor that built it resorting to lies, corruption and violence to prevent the public from discovering how narrowly a disaster was averted, how large is the potential for similar incidents in the future−and never mind the sizable body of scientific opinion about the improbability of a chain of accidents anything like that posited by the film...