Word: saves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when he declared that while successful programs would not be cut back, he had to "make some hard choices about how we spend the taxpayers' money." He added: "We can't afford to do everything." The delegates sat in silence as he vigorously defended his proposal to save fuel by imposing heavy taxes on gas-guzzling cars; the U.A.W. believes such a step would cost jobs. Said Carter: "The solution lies in using our great American ingenuity to design and produce the right cars for the future...
...league's arguments made good sense: a scaling-down would save money that the surviving representatives could use to upgrade their research staffs; it would sharpen the body's procedures; and it would provide a more effective check on the executive's power by creating a more efficient, more disciplined legislature. Besides, the Massachusetts house, with one representative for every 24,204 people, was more swollen than any other state legislature except New Hampshire's, with one for every 2,055. California, with a population almost five times as large as Massachusetts', has an assembly...
...explain. In the '40s, the Germans were killing our brethren. No Jews were allowed to come into this country. We begged the British, "Open the gates; let them come in." What did we do? We started to fight, to open the gates and allow our people to be saved from destruction. We started to fight to save our people. Now take [Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser] Arafat. What is his aim? He said in the so-called Palestinian charter that it was the destruction of the Jewish state. Israel must disappear. He wants to destroy a nation...
...Pretoria government's policies, particularly apartheid. In what appeared to be a substantive turning point in relations between the two countries, Mondale added with almost startling candor: "We hope that South Africans will not rely on any illusions that the U.S. will in the end intervene to save South Africa from the policies it is pursuing, for we will not do so. Failure to make progress will lead to a tragedy of human history...
...gosh! No hermit he, but that former rebel general, Obi-wan Kenobi, for whom they had been looking. Together, the four of them are even now setting out to deliver the secret plans to rebel headquarters, light-years and parsecs away. But will they be in time to save the lovely Leia? And, anyway, what can a punk kid, a has-been general and a comedy team of robots do against the dark, illimitable powers of the Galactic Empire...