Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thomas McGee, speaker of the Massachusetts house, has quietly supported a Carter move to get the state legislature to postpone the primary day, and 2) John White, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has warned the state's Democrats that the March 4 date violates a D.N.C. rule requiring all state Democratic organizations to take "positive steps" to set their primary elections between March 11 and June 11. If they do not do so, contends White, the delegates chosen by any earlier election could possibly be denied seats at the Democratic National Convention next summer in New York City...
...cutting fuel consumption, like setting thermostats at 78° F in the summer. Bicycling to a Face the Nation interview was one of the ways he dramatized the need for conservation. He also advocated a 10?-to 30?-per-gal. increase in the gasoline tax to cut consumption. The move displeased President Ford, who encouraged him to resign...
...before Carter put her into the driver's seat of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. During the past two years, she has ordered a record 15.6 million automobiles recalled for safety checks and changes. Her biggest victory: forcing Firestone to take back 8.7 million "500" radial tires, a move that so far has cost the company $147 million. She has also established tough fuel economy standards (27 m.p.g. by 1984) and stuck to them despite protests from manufacturers. Some of her former consumer-rights colleagues claim Claybrook was too lenient in postponing the deadline for airbags; Ralph Nader...
...expect the truly explosive materials would be among them. [There is one] document in which former Iranian Ambassador to the U.S. Ardeshir Zahedi recorded the support of such prominent figures as [Zbigniew] Brzezinski, [Henry] Kissinger, [Nelson] Rockefeller and Senators [Howard] Baker and [Abraham] Ribicoff for the Shah's move in setting up a military government in the fall...
...unwelcome visit in 1812 has Moscow faced the prospect of so many Westerners all at once: 300,000 in three weeks next year, or more than half the number the city normally sees in an entire year. These tourists will have unprecedented freedom, if very little time, to move about on their own-and, interestingly, to use cameras and tape recorders in the cities they visit...