Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...object in your American Scene to Plaquemines Parish's purchasing a golf course for the public at a return of $2 for every dollar invested by the taxpayer, and advocate the expenditure for water in Ironton of $2,000 a person, or over $20,000, for the benefit of the Merlis Broussard family of ten or more. The officials of Plaquemines Parish have always maintained fiscal responsibility and resisted irresponsible federal handouts, a duty they owe to their tax-paying citizens...
Because of this, Carter plans to be present for all sessions between the two, although he certainly will not object if they want to meet privately. Said one U.S. diplomat: "They can be awfully antagonistic when they're alone together. They've talked without note takers and there's been tremendous confusion and misunderstanding later about what was said and who meant what. We hope we can avoid a repeat of this by channeling all direct contact through Carter." One problem is that while Carter is fond of Sadat, he does not much like Begin, whom, he feels, has been...
...object of Long's contempt and ridicule was the celebrated "compromise" on deregulation of natural gas, which emerged from a Senate-House committee three weeks ago and seemed to herald the passage of Carter's long-stalled energy bill. That, in turn, seemed to permit Carter to take off for a vacation in the Rockies. But the compromise, which would increase the price of most natural gas by 15% immediately and then continue raising prices each year until controls end in 1985, has many enemies. Consumer groups oppose the price increases as excessive, while the gas industry wants...
...ethereal as a ray of starlight?would curve toward the object in the center...
...star, this Einsteinian black hole?the name was not coined by Physicist Wheeler until the 1960s?had far more finality. Since relativity forbids anything to move faster than light, an idea unknown in classic Newtonian physics, escape was impossible. All the energy in the world could not extract an object from a black hole...