Word: saves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general public was disturbed by Ruffian's case, what would happen if they knew of the "cheap" horses? No effort is made to save them after they are injured...
...Force colonel complained to reporters: You always write it's bombing, bombing, bombing It's not bombing! It's air support." The classic of the war, of course came from the American officer who explained: "It was necessary to destroy the village in order to save it." In Nixon's White House, concealing information became "containment" I was wrong" or "I lied" became "I misspoke myself." And so on. Abuse of power is usually attended by abuse of language Viet Nam and Watergate, along with later revelations about the FBI and CIA, have encouraged a cynical...
...magnificent tirade in Anthony Burgess's novel The Clockwork Testament or Enderby 's End, the poet Enderby rails at his dullard "creative writing" class: "All that's going to save your immortal soul, maaaaaan, if you have one, is words . . . Sooner or later you're all going to jail . . . All you'll have is language, the great conserver . . . Compose in your head. The time will come when you won't even be allowed a stub of pencil and the back of an envelope." There is perhaps too much doomsday in that advice, but anyone...
Then, in a more sensational move, citizen groups from 20 states asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to improve its contingency plans to save the most lives possible in the extremely unlikely event that a nuclear plant had a serious accident that would release lethal radioactivity. Such a disaster, Nader says, could cause "tens of thousands of casualties, billions of dollars in property damages, and long-term contamination of the affected land." To bring this scary message even closer to the public, antinuclear groups in 15 states last week petitioned their respective public utility commissions to order each utility to enclose...
...encourage Americans to save and invest more of their incomes, Treasury Secretary William Simon last week proposed a sweeping change in the U.S. tax system: meshing reductions in corporate and personal income taxes to eliminate all "double taxation" of dividends. (At present, a company pays tax on its profits, then sends some of the remaining money as dividends to stockholders, who pay tax on it as part of their personal incomes.) Testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee, Simon said that his plan would eventually give corporations and individual investors tax cuts totaling $14 billion, starting with...