Word: prods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increasing percentage of their annual federal funds for highways, airports and land-and water-conservation programs. The Senate did not include those penalties in its bill, and the House's decision on them is much in doubt. To proponents, including the Administration, the penalties are absolutely necessary to prod the states to action. To opponents, the penalties represent an unnecessary "gun at the Governor's head...
...highlight of Grouwinkel's week comes when he gets 15 minutes to prod his hogs around the kelly green sawdust of the prize ring. "They judge them for conformation," says John Miller, another hog farmer, as he leans against the fence. "What's conformation? If you see a girl walking down the street, and she walks pretty good, and she has good lines, and you just want to grab her, well, that's conformation." Miller later spots a breeder boar with good conformation and buys...
Valery Giscard d'Estaing offered a plan to penalize nations that run consistent surpluses in their balance of payments and prod them to restore an equilibrium that would benefit deficit countries like the U.S. American officials, who are ac customed to finding themselves at log gerheads with the French in interna tional financial conferences, promptly approved the idea. In an interview with TIME Correspondents Henry Muller and George Taber, Giscard remarked...
...sure, but I'm told she still has her stuff, in spite of some years and some eye problems. Her recent work is primarily interpretive, owing to a decline in big bands, but she can interpret Lennon-McCartney as well as anyone, and an evening with TWGJB ought to prod her into a few standards. Somehow, no one should miss this...
...sure, but I'm told she still has her stuff, in spite of some years and some eye problems. Her recent work is primarily interpretive, owing to a decline in big bands, but she can interpret Lennon-McCartney as well as anyone, and an evening with TWGJB ought to prod her into a few standards. Somehow, no one should miss this...