Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole trend set some of the stuffier law firms and various executive rows into re-examining traditional codes of dress. For the first time, reporters covering Congress were allowed to enter the press galleries without suit coats and ties. But a valiant attempt to extend that right to members of the House was squelched by a surprisingly decorous House Speaker Tip O'Neill. When Jim Mattox, a Texas Democrat, showed up in a light blue shirt and no tie, O'Neill asked him to leave...
Urcuyo's unexpected power play set off tremors in Washington; State Department officials feared that the tenuous relations they had established with the junta would be destroyed if the transition did not take place on schedule. Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who suspected that Urcuyo would not have acted without Somoza's approval, placed an angry phone call to the ex-dictator's $1 million, nine-room waterfront mansion in Miami Beach. According to Somoza, Christopher warned that if Urcuyo could not be persuaded to step down immediately, Somoza would no longer be welcome...
Sigmund Freud idolized Hannibal. So much so that for years he was psychologically unable to enter Rome because Hannibal had never set foot in the city. In fact, Freud's ideas about himself were heavily tinged with mythic and military overtones. "I am actually not a man of science," he once told his friend Wilhelm Fliess, "not an experimenter, not a thinker... but a conquistador...
...average 8.2 million bbl. a day. American oil companies almost surely could not find much more than that to bring in even if there were no quota; imports so far in 1979 have averaged only 8.145 million bbl. a day. For 1980 the daily limit will be set somewhere between 8.2 million and 8.5 million bbl. Because the recession in the U.S. economy has begun, imports probably would not exceed that level in any case. If the quota were to stay at roughly that point in 1981 and succeeding years (a decision that may have to be made by another...
...board would be empowered by Congress to select projects-the building of pipelines and refineries, the opening of coal mines-that it deemed essential to expand domestic fuel output. It then could waive procedural requirements for endless hearings imposed by a maze of environmental, safety and other laws, and set rigid deadlines for state and local authorities to give a yes-or-no answer on whether those projects would be allowed...