Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discouraging 46% approval rating (down from 60% in February). Now Harris was out with figures that showed even more slippage: a 66% negative rating on his handling of the economy, 57% negative for the energy program, 51% negative for his foreign policy. Something dramatic was in order. Mondale spoke up and, using a basketball image, urged "a full-court press" on energy. Carter liked the idea...
Carter at one time spoke of a reform program that would shift the tax burden but would involve little change in Government revenues or none at all. However, by last month a Treasury planning paper called for a net tax reduction of $17.2 billion to be phased in over several years-$13.8 billion going to individuals, $3.4 billion to business. Last week Blumenthal reported that White House planners were considering deepening the net cut to as much as $22 billion-possibly $15 billion to individuals, $7 billion to corporations. The aim was to provide a better climate for profits...
...beginning was the word. And the word was with Tolkien. And it spoke of the Valar, a race of gods who first dwelt in a creation called Middle-earth but then retired to Valinor. The Valar loved the light and planted two trees, Telperion and Laurelin, wherein was the source of the light of the world. But one of the Valar, a renegade named Morgoth, envied the light, wishing to corrupt and control Middle-earth...
Daniel Ellsberg '52 told an audience of about 350 people last night at Cambridge High and Latin School to protest nuclear proliferation and the role of the United States in the nuclear arms race. Ellsberg spoke as part of a teach-in sponsored by Mobilization for Survival, a recently formed anti-nuclear group...
Sandra Graham, vice-mayor of Cambridge, and Bernard T. Feld, professor of Physics at MIT, also spoke during the teach...