Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shorter features are also good. Fortnightly News is a section in the front containing reports from around the country, this week reporting on anti-nuclear demonstrations at Seabrook; Cesar Chavez's first major organizing attempt outside the Southwest; native Hawaiians' battles with the Defense Department, and the utilities companies' efforts to take over rights to solar energy. The inevitable Washington column is written by Alan Baron, who puts out an insider's newsletter from the capital, and contains some interesting tidbits: Carter's inability to get around Senate recommendations in his efforts to appoint blacks and women to federal judgeships...
...shorter term, Charles Schultze, chief of the Council of Economic Advisers, is concerned about a possible slowdown in the economy during the second half of next year. The CEA has suggested that the President consider asking Congress for a "quickie" tax cut next year in the event that stimulus is needed before the tax-reform bill is passed. The President, at his press conference last week, stopped just short of endorsing the idea when he said that a tax cut "may come next year or perhaps later-I think next year." One idea is to propose lowering withholding rates...
...second side is not as strong as the first. It is continuation of the same sounds, assembled in shorter cuts, perhaps for the benefit of the air waves. "I Got The News" uses graceful vocal harmony and some fine guitar leads with the album's usual set of jazz instruments to weave a fluent, atriking cut. "Peg" is that cute tune to which all the top-fortyettes will bump. Peg," despite its true quality, approaches the barrier between easy-listening-jazz and disco. The "Disco Dan" concept puts a damper on the album, raising doubts as to whether...
...itself never really changes, and the masses of people milling in and around Weld Saturday night didn't look much different from the same crowd two years ago. The women wore more makeup, it seemed (and of course there were more of them), and the men seemed to have shorter hair, but the topics of conversation remained the same...
...wheel-drive subcompacts, the Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon. Ford, too, will offer a front-wheel-drive subcompact, the Fiesta, though the car will be built by Ford subsidiaries in Europe and shipped to the U.S. American Motors' entry in the subcompact field will be the Concord, a shorter, lighter version of the Hornet, which is being shelved...