Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iranian oil without mandatory cutbacks until late spring or summer. The 900,000 bbl.-a-day shortfall in crude supplies resulting from the Iranian shutdown has so far been made up by increasing imports from other countries and drawing down domestic reserves. But Schlesinger said that the Government would move more quickly than expected to cut consumption so that stockpiles for next winter can be replenished over the spring and summer...
Though the Administration clearly favors lifting price controls, it has by no means decided to ask Congress to do so, given the headaches the move could cause. As Schlesinger notes, "What I want, and what I recommend, may be two different things...
Back in New York, he started as a lowly flack, a pressagent. But he worked his way up so fast that, before the end of the Depression, he and his wife Hilda were able to move into the house on Gramercy Park, which for years had been subdivided into poky flats. No. 19 had been built in 1845, rebuilt in the 1860s and finally remodeled in the 1880s by Stanford White. It had fallen into disuse, and the Sonnenbergs, sensing their ideal domestic theater in it, began the long work of restoration, accumulating the furniture (Sheraton and Chippendale-pattern credenzas...
...birth of the slogan itself, with whatever name, goes back to the start of history; as far back as human records occur, so do slogans. On the basis of its power alone, its potential capacity to unite people and move them toward either belligerent or peaceful goals, the slogan rates as one of man's most ingenious and economical verbal inventions. So the ubiquity of slogans in modern times is understandable, and it probably does more good than harm. Still, there is reason to wonder whether the use-and abuse-of slogans has not at last resulted...
Today's slogans, too often unmemorable, still encode the directions in which people are trying to move their countrymen. Combatants in the abortion arena rally around "right to life" and "freedom of choice." Opponents of nuclear power cry, "No nukes," while proponents answer that it is "safer than sex." Liberated homosexuals chant, "Gay pride"; their detractors plead, "Save our children." Blacks employ "black is beautiful" for self-encouragement and "black power" as a statement to the established order. And the elderly now demand "gray power." Proposition 13, though a California event, has become a rallying call everywhere among rebels...