Word: program
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...space program is the only Government agency working for our future; we shouldn't be so purblind to our children's needs as to cut its funds short...
...Third World country like Pakistan tries to advance its nuclear program [July 16], and all hell breaks loose in Washington and the U.S. media. Yet the two superpowers go on endlessly adding hundreds of weapons, costing billions of dollars, to their nuclear arsenals, but no eyebrows are raised. Israel carries on its own nuclear developments, but the press is not alarmed. Don't we have here a case of double standards...
...whom, a coast-to-coast survey by TIME bureau chiefs showed, there were a formidable number. The subject of his opening cannonade was the oil industry's effort to get Congress to reduce the windfall profits tax, which Carter hopes to use to finance a multibillion-dollar energy program. Said Carter: "There will be a massive struggle to gut the windfall profits tax. I want to serve notice tonight that I will do everything in my power as President to see that the windfall profits tax is passed...
...President spent much of the week trying to revive the support generated for his new energy proposals by his well-received TV speech on July 15. He made a strong plea for his program at a breakfast meeting with Democratic congressional leaders and again in a closed session with members of the influential Senate Finance Committee...
Increased production of synthetic fuels from coal, a major component of President Carter's energy program, will lead to a build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, Harvard professors said yesterday...