Word: specter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Drop. The disposal plan has stirred the same furor that forced the Army to cancel similar shipments twice in the past year. The specter of the gas escaping to pollute the ocean has been raised by both England and the Bahamas, and indeed, environmentalists are worried. There is no positive proof that the dumping will or will not cause permanent damage. Dr. Howard L. Sanders, senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, called the plan "sheer, unbelievable inefficiency and stupidity." Florida Governor Claude Kirk went one step further, promising to "pursue every avenue available...
Political Specter. The Administration's efforts to slow the economy led to a downturn in receipts from corporate income taxes, which helped vaporize the hoped-for surplus. The current fiscal year looks still worse. "If everything goes wrong," as one Administration official put it, the deficit could climb as high as $15 billion. Some Administration experts conclude that a $7 to $10 billion deficit may be necessary to stave off a serious recession...
What happens to the economy is the principal political specter haunting Nixon now. A Gallup poll gave Nixon a 61% overall approval rating last week, highest in six months, but Nixon has been regularly getting his lowest popularity marks for his handling of the economy. If the economy does not turn around sufficiently in the second half of 1970, great numbers of Nixon's newfound blue-collar supporters could well vote Democratic in the November congressional elections...
...must exhibit its new power spectacularly and decisively. "This deliberate, premeditated destruction," wrote Henry Stimson with sad conviction after the war, "was our least abhorrent choice. [It] put an end to the Japanese war. It stopped the fire raids, and the strangling blockade; it ended the ghastly specter of a clash of great land armies...
...ensuing riots, four men were killed and at least 200 injured, including 100 soldiers. "If I'd been the devil himself, trying my best to cause more trouble here," said a Belfast journalist, "I couldn't have chosen a better time to jail Bernadette." The specter of more open fighting loomed once again over Northern Ireland's tense cities...