Word: shooed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Penalizing owners of gas-guzzling cars with heavy taxes may depress the auto industry and increase unemployment. General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy calls the plan "one of the most simplistic, irresponsible and shortsighted ideas ever conceived." Said Douglas Fraser, a shoo-in as the next president of the United Auto Workers: "Auto workers should not accept a disproportionate share of the burden...
Before the students actually join the CRR, their names must be drawn by lot at a CHUL meeting (there are four spots available, so the freshmen are shoo-ins) and then sent to Dean Rosovsky, who formally appoints the students...
...shoo-in for Indira. That was the dominant opinion when, after a year and a half of "emergency" rule, India's Prime Minister two months ago called elections for mid-March. Presumably, went the argument, shrewd Indira Gandhi would not be going to the voters unless she was certain of victory. But by last week, many observers in New Delhi were convinced that the elections Mrs. Gandhi could not lose had turned into a horse race...
...reward. Woodcock, who is 65 and must retire this year, announced that after consulting with him, the three other serious contenders for the presidency-U.A.W. Vice Presidents Ken Bannon, Irving Bluestone and Duane ("Pat") Greathouse-all had decided to withdraw. So the 60-year-old Fraser is a shoo-in for election at the union convention...
...increase and fears that the earmarked funds may siphon off for conservation projects money that is needed elsewhere have aroused unexpected controversy about the proposal. "It may be too close to call," says Robert Van Ark of the Missouri Public Expenditures Survey. "At first I thought it was a shoo-in-it's like motherhood, being for the ducks. But now I think...