Word: seene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congress fears a tax revolt courageous act," declared Jimmy Carter last December when Congress voted to hike Social Security taxes by $227 billion over the next ten years, the largest peacetime tax increase in U.S. history. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill approvingly. "If I've ever seen an issue that's a Democratic issue, this...
...Senators with phone calls and mail, and now the legislators' courage is running out, particularly among those up for re-election this fall. Last week, in a sudden about-face, the House Speaker became the leader of the retreat. Observed a Democratic House aide: "I've never seen O'Neill run so fast. He simply panicked...
...earlier times of trouble, Egypt has seen itself as the protector of the Arabs against Israel; in fact, it became involved in the 1967 war partly because of a real or imagined threat by Israel against Syria. All that is changed now. Last week, when Israel invaded another Arab state, Lebanon, there was no talk of mobilizing the Egyptian armed forces, and the Egyptian President at first criticized the Israeli action with notable restraint. It all bore out what influential Egyptians have been saying for weeks: "No more Egyptian blood will be shed for Palestinians...
...invasion, TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis reported, "the exodus of Lebanese from the area was both enormous and pitiful. As many as 200,000 people fled their homes, clogging the roads heading north toward Beirut. On the coastal highway, tractors pulled wagons filled with livestock; children could be seen riding in the trunks of crowded automobiles, sitting with the open trunk doors curving over their heads like umbrellas. At Aadloun, a town well north of the Litani River, two Mercedes taxis packed with families fleeing the fighting were ambushed by an Israeli reconnaissance party; men, women and children?14 in all?...
...desk, puts them through his own mental calculator, adds some instincts that come from his 40 years in the nation's most important industry, and tells one and all that the figure will approach 11,750,000. Sales were set back by the worst winter he has ever seen, but he figures that they will rise with the temperatures. Murphy's uncannily accurate forecasting record in the past couple of years would make a bookie tremble. If he is right this time, the whole economy will perform much better than orthodox seers predict...