Word: standings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neill sensed a different sentiment on the floor. He knew that members of the House had been blistered by their constituents for turning down President Carter's plan for stand-by gasoline rationing. The Speaker also realized that the voters were fed up with the oil companies. "I've never seen the public so mad," O'Neill told reporters. "You take away gasoline and you destroy the family. That's the way they feel." Indiana Democrat John Brademas saw another reason for the vote, urged along by persuasive conservationist lobbying: "There is a feeling of protecting...
...pending projects. Finally, the Arab Organization for Industrialization, which was set up in 1975 to produce everything from helmets to helicopters with Egyptian manpower and $1.4 billion in financing from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, abruptly halted its operations. As a result, 16,000 Egyptians stand to lose their jobs...
...worsen either inflation or recession-or both. Says Greenspan: "If inflation is public enemy No. 1, we would be well served by a do-nothing Congress." Murray Weidenbaum of Washington University in St. Louis urges repeal of many Inflationary federal regulations. "My advice is: 'Don't just stand there, undo something.' " But Heller figures that all the Government can do to head off stagflation is "pray and inveigh...
...White had been a breakfast cereal," said one acquaintance, "he would have to have been Wheaties." But Defense Counsel Douglas Schmidt described White as a manic-depressive with intolerable pressures because of his heavily mortgaged house and his efforts to support a wife and baby from a fast-food stand. The defense made much of White's penchant for wolfing down junk food-Twinkies, Cokes, doughnuts, candy bars-a habit that, the defense claimed, exacerbated his depression and indicated a chemical imbalance in his brain...
...Kraft go overboard in praise of China on this latest, ten-day trip to five cities. The five columns he wrote portray China as beset by ideological and economic confusion, and disappointed with what Peking perceives as the U.S.'s unwillingness to stand up to the Soviet Union. Kraft did far less independent wandering than on his previous trips, but visited more museums and historic sites. "This was the first time that I bathed in the sea of Chinese history," he says. "I had the almost existential sense of these 6,000 years of rising civilization in China...