Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans are being pitched off Amtrak passenger trains to save a few bucks," notes former White House speechwriter Pat Buchanan, "it approaches the obscene to demand that taxpayers triple their subsidy to this playpen of the penthouse proletariat." Never one for subtlety, James J. Kilpatrick says he "sees no reason on God's green earth for taking the taxpayer's money in order to nuture those happy hotdogs of the intellectual left who would love to get on the air and read their gaga poems at public expense." The commission characterizes public broadcasting as an "absolutely indespensable tool...
Peremptory challenges allow attorneys to reject usually up to 16 potential jurors without giving a reason for the dismissal...
...bail it out. It looks upon Americans as basically white and believes that they'll think racially. It's my belief that until something is done that actually costs the United States, something that proves that the U.S. is not kidding around the South African government will see no reason to change at all. The only things I can see that are non-violent, and that would constitute a strong pressure are withdrawal of investment and loan money from South Africa, and recall of the ambassador. It will take something fairly dramatic, like withdrawal of economic and diplomatic support...
They will have further reason to worry because the economy's decline will kill all chances of reducing the federal budget deficit from $37 billion this year to the $29 billion that Carter projects for the fiscal year beginning in October. The Board of Economists expects the deficit in fiscal 1980 to bulge to $45 billion. In fact, says Alan Greenspan, head of the economic consulting firm of Townsend-Greenspan, "Carter has a better chance of bringing in the budget below $30 billion this fiscal year than next." One reason: tax receipts this year will be up because...
...Michael Cohrs '79, one of the show's producers, said yesterday he could think of no motive or particular reason for the threat. "It was just a prank--someone wanted to shut down the party we were having." Cohrs said...