Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...declined. According to the study, 71% of the families now have incomes of at least $800 a month. But for the boat people, all that lies in the distant future. The most they can expect now is a sort of least common denominator of human life: a stretch of sand on which to beach a leaky boat, and the prospect, however remote, of a new life in an alien land...
...have a car, you can find some MDC (Metropolitan District Commission) beaches within Boston's city limits. Some of these beaches are sand pits, and some of them are decent. None of them are nirvana...
...House vote on gas rationing, Carter dashed off sharp notes to Congressmen. To New York Democrat James Hanley, who had explained his vote in a letter described by a White House official as "snotty and insulting," the President answered, "What should I do, put my head in the sand, ignore the problems, or look for a scapegoat...
...direction. For months, Carter has predicted that gas would be scarce all summer, and in even shorter supply next year. Two weeks ago, when Congress refused to give him standby authority to impose gasoline rationing, he angrily accused his opponents of having "apparently put their heads in the sand." Just the day before his meeting with Brown, Carter told 200 business leaders at the White House that the energy crisis "festers like a cancer, sapping away the basic strength of our nation...
Carter on Friday called reporters into the Oval Office to announce that "I was shocked and I was embarrassed for our nation's Government." A majority of the House members "have apparently put their heads in the sand," he said, and left him with "no authority to meet what could be a national crisis." Rather than submit another plan for Congress to pick apart, he said, "I challenge Congress" to come up with itsown rationing plan...