Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grave doubt, but the Three Mile Island accident came at a time when President Carter was about to propose a new approach to the nation's energy problems. He had already urged a speedup in putting new nuclear power plants into operation by reducing the years it takes to pass through all of the regulatory challenges. While a case could still be made that bureaucratic indecision and delay ought to be minimized even tougher safety standards would almost inevitably be one result of the Pennsylvania breakdown. Wrote Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy in a letter to Energy Secretary James Schlesinger...
Carter tried and failed to persuade Congress to pass a somewhat similar tax two years ago. Now he is planning to ask all over again, but success is by no means assured...
...they suffered no longer after Saturday afternoon's crucial twinbill with Navy was over. "Pass the word, the 'Dogs' are back," they were saying, and why not? The Harvard baseball team had swept the doubleheader with the Midshipmen, 8-2 and 3-1, and did it with the true flair and ability of a defending league champion...
...landowners pressed legislators last week to pass two bills that would effectively end rent control, one by phasing it out over the course of a year, the other by ending rent control on individual apartments as their tenants left--called vacancy rent decontrol. "With a 50 per cent annual turnover rate, that is ending rent control," City Councilor and State Rep. Saundra Graham said at the state hearing...
...pass judgment on a corporation that refuses to talk...