Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Simon wants to restore their nerve by establishing a conservative "counterintelligentsia" that will answer the liberal Establishment, charge for charge. Forget about giving any more money to foundations that simply sponsor attacks on capitalism, says Simon. Swamp the new group of conservative thinkers with "grants, grants and more grants in exchange for books, books and more books...
...nice figures. They showed that Carter would lose to either Ford or Ronald Reagan if a presidential election were held now. The nationwide sampling of 1,498 voters gave Ford a 48%-to-43% lead, while Reagan squeaked by 47% to 46%. Among Democrats, moreover, Ted Kennedy would swamp Carter, 60% to 35% (and would beat the two Republicans handily as well). California's Jerry Brown? Nowhere. Ford would defeat Brown, 52% to 38%; Reagan would stop his successor in Sacramento, 52% to 40%. Even Carter clobbers Brown among Democrats...
...fifth part of the package, which Carter called "the centerpiece" of his program, is a tax on crude oil aimed at boosting domestic prices to the world level in order to promote conservation and raise production. This would end the controversial bureaucratic swamp of "entitlements" under which refiners of domestic crude oil subsidize refiners who use more expensive imported oil. No one gives this proposal much chance of passage, however, despite the determination of House leaders to keep on pressing. A new tax, especially one that may raise consumer prices on such a basic commodity, is hardly likely to find...
...State Cheese. In Florida, the legislature recently indulged in boisterous repartee over a measure that would have made it a crime to molest the "skunk ape," a mythical critter occasionally sighted around the state that is said to stand 7 ft. tall, weigh 700 lbs. and smell like swamp...
What is especially likable about the film is that Claude (Alain Cohen) is neither haunted nor hypersensitive, as teen agers customarily are in memoirs. He is a fairly good sort. His father, lost in the swamp of his mid-40s, can't quite figure out what's wrong with him. But he senses that the problem has something to do with the generative urge. He speaks with love of his marriage to Claude's mother, and it is clear that the love that is evident within the family has given Claude enough ballast to steady...