Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...determines to do something." Simon recommended that he be put in charge of a federal bailout "to determine that the city was irrevocably and unalterably on the path to fiscal responsibility before any aid could be given." He added: "Such aid should be so punitive in its terms and so painful that no other city not facing absolute disaster would think of applying for help...
...early last week in a hastily scheduled speech. Ford declared that the U.S. has been following a "path toward bigger Government, higher taxes and higher inflation." He warned that "down that road lie the wreckages of many great nations of the past." Instead, he said, the U.S. must reduce both taxes and spending. Insisting that "it would be dangerous and irresponsible to adopt one without the other," he vowed to veto any attempt by Congress to enact tax cuts without committing itself to spending no more than $395 billion in fiscal 1977, which begins next Oct. 1. Without such...
...handful of this country's standard, liberal newspapers. Another handful of "your basic liberal magazines"--The Progressive, Nation, New Republic, Ramparts, The New Yorker--were keeping their eyes, or at least those of their free-lance stringers, on what was going on in the mountain hollows that line the path of a stream called Clover Fork in Eastern Kentucky...
...members of this group, concerns the partnership between a gossamer-clad nymph called Life and skeleton in black named Death. In one sequence, Death, reclining on the Brooklyn Bridge, extracts a cigar from his voluminous cape and looks around for a light. He flicks a convenient jet into the path of another airplane and casually lights the stogie from the crash. Eventually, the great green scaly three-mouthed mumbling monster God shows up for the final summing-up, sends Life and Death off to run another planet, and pronounces, "You're on your...
...from the shore line near Point Barrow. That would create a narrow navigation channel, enabling ice-free sailing to the pipeline's northern terminus at Prudhoe Bay. The winds finally came, and the convoy moved out. But the winds shifted unexpectedly and began blowing ice back into the path of the fleet. Last week the convoy was forced to retreat 30 miles to avoid being frozen in for the long Arctic winter...