Word: seene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which party would fight harder to cut taxes, 24% said the Republicans and 23% said the Democrats, with the remainder being unsure or seeing no difference. Similarly, 29% of those polled said the Democrats would run the government more efficiently, whereas only 22% said the Republicans would. Democrats were seen by a 30%-to-24% margin as more likely to "keep the economy prosperous." Voters did not express overwhelming confidence in either party to handle the tax issue, but those who did have a preference tended to cite their own party as being best on taxes. The Democratic edge stems...
Thereupon, O'Neill and Majority Leader James Wright of Texas moved in. They played on Sisk's reluctance to be seen as the man who killed the energy bill and promised to fix problems of water reclamation and supply in his district. When the vote was taken again on Friday, it was 9 to 5 in favor of a single bill, with Sisk voting in the majority and two other Representatives in effect abstaining. A few hours later, the House went along with the committee by the narrowest of margins...
...Soochow's leaning Tiger Hill Pagoda (it has a 3¾° tilt), the visitor is not so much awed as numbed. Who were-and are - the people who could construct such fantasies? What else have they wrought? Are there other such marvels and monstrosities to be seen or expected? The Foreign Friend, as he is designated today, faces the same quandary that confronted the great Italian: Can I record half the things I have witnessed? Will anyone believe me if I describe them...
...authoritarian society in which the late Chairman Mao Tse-tung's sayings, statue or visage (often today paired with that of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng) dominates every public place-though Mao buttons and the once ubiquitous little Red Book of Mao's quotations are seldom seen today. The people professedly live and work by Mao-Marxist cliches insisting that everyone's labor is for the greater good of socialism. In reality, as in any other country in the world, that means work hard and make a buck...
...abortion, water conservation, nuclear power or the location of bridges and expressways. Draw an issue anywhere and contenders will rally on both sides, or several sides, shouting up influence out of all proportion to their numbers. These days every political and social issue tends to be seen as a consuming cause, and Americans who throw themselves into public controversies increasingly tend to become single-issue champions - crusaders...