Word: sustainability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boost food production, stiffened regulation of strip mining, stimulated the housing industry through subsidies of mortgage interest and would have appropriated $5.3 billion to ease unemployment by creating 1 million public jobs. Each time Ford and his aides mustered enough votes among Republicans and fiscally conservative Southern Democrats to sustain the vetoes in the House. On the public jobs bill, for example, the 22 Democrats who voted to sustain the veto included 18 Southerners. Similarly, 35 Democrats, 26 of them from the South, voted to uphold Ford's veto of the housing bill. In their most embarrassing failure...
Tsongas' disillusionment began when 22 Democrats voted with the Republicans to sustain President Ford's veto of the jobs bill. For the first time, he realized the extent of power wielded by a President in league with a disciplined, albeit minority party, v. a mammoth but unruly majority in Congress. Advocating stronger party discipline, Tsongas became the spokesman for a group of dissident Democratic freshmen that last month persuaded Speaker Albert and Majority Leader O'Neill to sit down and discuss the problems of leadership. (To date, nothing but some good will has come...
...there is no escaping the fact that leaders of capitalist economies must use every available resource to figure out the amounts of vital commodities that their industries will need to sustain strong growth. They will have to calculate where the supplies are likely to come from, what exploration, research and development investments will be required to produce them, what conservation steps and recycling programs may be necessary to stretch supplies, and what materials might be used as substitutes in a pinch. The tough question: Just who is to decide...
...Parker, to all appearances a hardy young man, is first encountered huddled by the fire. "We should not have had one at home," he apologizes to Charlotte, "but the sea air is always damp. I am not afraid of anything so much as damp." But "Another Lady," unfortunately, cannot sustain the kind of dialogue in which the characters betray their own follies. Midway through the book, extensive descriptions of Charlotte's growing feelings for her Prince Charming, and a plot that is a little too complicated, rather than Austen's vivid and endlessly amusing characters, have become the focus...
Ford has climbed out of the cellar in the national polls, and both Gallup and Harris record 50% or more approval. His effectiveness on the Hill has been demonstrated in his recent battles to sustain three vetoes. The results of the probing of the electorate by the Republican National Committee do not need obscuring. Even Ford's weekend afternoons of golf with celebrities yield a slightly positive response, as measured in the R.N.C. poll samples...