Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...within a state's borders is free of such controls and generally goes for $2 per m.c.f. to $2.25 per m.c.f. As it had done only two years ago, the Senate voted to remove price ceilings on new gas produced onshore (the vote was 50 to 46). The slight Senate margin favoring deregulation is unlikely to impress the House, where an Administration-backed bill calling for a rise in the price to $1.75 per m.c.f., but continued regulation, was approved, 244 to 177, last August...
...really want to do everything," Danielle--who now calls herself Danielle Alexandra--says. "But you can do it, you really can do it", she adds, with a slight smile, "I fully intend to try, anyway...
...eyes were tinted red, and the lines beneath them were more pronounced than usual. As he strode toward the narrow lectern in the Executive Office Building, he forced only a slight smile. In rare defeats in the past Jimmy Carter has kept himself grimly in control. But as he announced Budget Director Bert Lance's resignation last week, Carter twice almost lost his composure. Voice choking, eyes misting with tears, the President paused, bit his lip and declared: "Bert Lance is my friend...
...supplies from the North Sea, Alaska and Mexico supplement oil from the Middle East and South America -at a time when the shaky world economic recovery cannot absorb all of it. One result: price shaving by most of the big producers. Kuwait, Iran and Saudi Arabia are all offering slight discounts of 100 to 300 off the price (about $13 per bbl.) of their heavy-grade oil, the kind that is refined to heat homes and factories...
...years ago, Rosovsky targeted the 1976-77 fiscal year for a balanced budget. And, after prodigious budget slashing--including a slight decrease in the number of teaching appointments and the postponement of plans to renovate some of the River House dining halls--he succeeded...