Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Viet Nam's major cities only Saigon has so far been spared mass panic, though nerves were frayed by the news from the north. The only clear sign of unease was the precautionary actions taken by many people. Hoarding pushed up the price of rice by some 10%. Housewives were stashing away three-month supplies of Nuoc Mam, the redolent fish sauce. Businessmen were transferring piasters from Vietnamese banks to the local branches of U.S. banks, hoping they would prove safer if the Communists came...
Reluctantly Signed. After three days of throwing out hints of a possible veto, President Ford took television time to announce that he had reluctantly decided to sign the bill - and he did so in front of the TV cameras. He called the overall size of the tax cut "within reason" and said that he was signing it because "our economy needs the stimulus and support of a tax cut and needs it now." Ford complained of "a lot of extraneous changes" of tax law in the bill and said that it failed to give "adequate relief to middle-income taxpayers...
...countless amendments and could have taken a month or two to pass. At best, Ford might have picked up some conservative backing, but he would have angered the controlling Democrats in Congress and most economists as well. Ford's own Council of Economic Advisers had urged him to sign the bill...
...Bahamas, 50 dozen oysters from Virginia, five 30-lb. lobsters from Nova Scotia, a 20-lb. Alaskan king crab, 100-lb. rounds of roast beef from Omaha and pastry fantasies as arcane as Ken Russell's own visions. By the subway entrances sat an 8-ft.-long Tommy sign fashioned from 3,000 tomatoes, radishes, cauliflowers and broccoli...
...wreck of the Rock Island is just the latest sign of growing trouble on the U.S. rails and the failure of the Government to produce a rational rail policy for the nation. An ICC staff estimate predicts that the industry's first-quarter loss will be "worse than has ever before occurred, even during the Great Depression of the 1930s." No fewer than eight Northeast roads are in bankruptcy. And the Department of Transportation's new Secretary, William Coleman Jr., cautions: "It would be foolish simply to subsidize the rails. I think 20% of the nation...