Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the law was passed. Since then, the cost of running city governments has swollen as much as 15% in some urban areas. Many cities raise most of the rest of their money from property taxes, which are often based on assessed valuations that have not been raised to reflect inflation...
...bound to be beneficial. In the near term, they would ease a financial situation that threatens to be more devastating than the energy crisis. Rapidly increasing OPEC revenues, which only now reflect last year's price in creases, have mainly been shoveled into short-term investments, to the point where Western financial institutions are in a bind...
General View. "I must tell you honestly that [U.S.] support is eroding -in our Congress and among our people. The decisions of the past few months are causing many to reflect and reassess what our role should...
...bipartisan slaps at the White House reflect a newly independent and increasingly sour, belligerent mood hi Congress as well as Ford's own ineptness. Carelessly, he had not consulted the Republican leadership nor had he lobbied old colleagues for his vetoes. "If the President expects to have his vetoes sustained, he has to make a definite case for them," said House G.O.P. Leader John Rhodes. From the other side of the aisle, Majority Leader Tip O'Neill was more acid: "Since the day he commuted Nixon, he hasn't done anything right...
...even clear that the pair has gone anywhere at all. Any real hope we find in this film comes from ourselves, or perhaps from the little bit of illumination Bergman brings to the paradoxes of successive love affairs. How being cast off might give time to reflect and start again, even while reflection on what went wrong makes the rejection impossible to accept. How a new love affair might graft onto the nearly dead roots of the old love, destroying the chances for a clean break...