Word: slap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general, Carter would let domestic oil prices rise to world levels, increase prices of newly discovered natural gas by 20% (to approach oil prices), slap a 5¢-per-gal. tax on gasoline each year if conservation goals were not met, and use tax penalties on "gas guzzler" cars and rebates on small cars to encourage purchasers to select energy-efficient autos. To many liberals, this was not going far enough. "Large Chevy owners will now have to switch to small Chevies. I don't consider this a sacrifice," said Tom Quinn, special assistant on environmental protection to California Governor Jerry...
...serious, because it seems to me that the search committee in charge of finding a new athletic director really has no idea whatsoever of what it is looking for. In fact, the very idea that such an extensive search has taken place amounts to a direct slap to the face of Mr. Watson, 60 Boylston St. and the entire Harvard Athletic Department as we currently know...
Stanfield agreed with Clarke about Quebec's economic prospects as a separate nation. "Maybe there are some Quebecers who believe that Quebec would be healthier economically apart from Canada, but they are deluding themselves," he said. He also took a backhanded slap at the present government's economic policies, claiming that "if the economy of Canada is weak...[the separatists] will feel they have nothing to lose economically. A strong, healthy economy would be an attraction to Quebecers...
...plants. Many executives seem convinced that Carter will resort to them if inflation gets out of hand, despite repeated Administration assurances to the contrary. Says a White House economist: "No matter what Carter says, businessmen still think he's going to turn around in twelve months and slap on controls. It's an irrational fear." Shifting regulatory policies is another worry. Businessmen are not about to make big investments if they think a new regulation, say in the environmental area, will jack up the cost of building and running a plant even before it is completed...
Initially, the Arabs were stunned when Carter endorsed "defensible borders" for Israel (code word for no return to the 1967 frontiers). In a welcoming address to the Palestine National Council in Cairo, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat seemed to be taking a slap at Carter when he declared that "it is inadmissible to speak about 'secure boundaries' [for Israel]. We will never yield one inch of our land...