Word: orderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...likely to defer the most controversial "reforms," presumably until after the 1978 elections. The plan for next year will probably include more modest changes in the tax code, along with tax cuts designed to boost business confidence, prod capital spending and give a timely kick to the economy in order to prevent the slowdown that many experts have predicted for the second half...
...historians at the Park Service had been a little uncomfortable about the jarring informality, but they checked with the White House. Back came the order: Jimmy...
...legal name rather than the one his parents gave him-Michael Herbert Dengler. After four years of unsuccessful attempts to get North Dakota and Minnesota authorities, the telephone company and a series of employers to identify him by his numerical name, Dengler, now 32 and a sometime short-order cook, last week sued for the name change in Minnesota's Hennepin County district court...
...elimination of so many hallowed titles has caused consternation in the civil service hierarchy. Said one grieving Ministerialsekretär of the waterways administration: "Our proud captains will become just controllers. It's like losing the command of an imperial battleship in order to conduct Vienna's No. 72 streetcar-the one that runs to the central cemetery...
Then the hype was on. One day a year of Christmas was not enough for the growth-minded executives in the upper echelons of The Santa Corporation. As Amalgamated Widget, they had used the company's formidable promotional muscle to expand July Fourth Weekend into July Fourth Week in order to boost the firm's Patriotism and Pyrotechnics Division. As The Santa Corporation, they now began taking out five-minute television spots and full-age ads in major daily newspapers to, as their ad men put it, "make that Christmas spirit last and last and last...