Word: public
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cherish public credit . . . use it as sparingly as possible . . . By vigorous exertion . . . discharge debts . . . not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden we ourselves ought to bear...
...also probing persistent reports by surviving members of the cult that Jones had decreed that if his community was destroyed, a "hit team" of other members would be dispatched to hunt down and kill any defectors who had turned against the cult, as well as any public officials considered guilty of harassing his group...
...said he was the actual God who made the heavens and earth." Jones ordered his followers to buy, and sell to the public, small pictures of him to ward off evil. He demanded...
...about 44% of the current $491.6 billion federal budget. Their spending, moreover, has increased in the past few years. Outlays for what is defined as "education, training, employment and social services" have jumped from $21 billion in fiscal 1977 to an estimated $30.4 billion this year. Even though public school enrollment has been declining in most parts of the country, the Office of Education budget has risen from $7.7 billion in fiscal 1977 to $10.6 billion in 1979. Thus the White House is convinced that few programs will actually suffer even if substantial cuts are made...
...majority argued, to accept an ad from Playboy is to condone what Playboy stands for--the smirking, leering, pseudo-sophisticated brand of smuttiness that has, for 25 years, gone further to promote sexist thinking than any other publication. No matter how hard the minority might protest, no matter how fervently it might agree that the Playboy life-style and philosophy are degrading, it was saddled with the label of sexist. The connection between the acceptance of an ad and the endorsement of the advertiser's beliefs and public statements is too clear, the majority said...