Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...devilish dilemma is whether to switch policy, and by how much. Most economists believe that the Government should immediately attack the towering deficits that threaten to keep interest rates high. Two possible strategies: scaling back the enormous increase in defense spending now planned or delaying, reducing or even canceling the further 10% cut in income tax rates scheduled for July 1983. On Capitol Hill, Congressmen are advancing various plans to reduce spending-even including the previously unthinkable step of freezing cost of living increases due next year in Social Security benefits-and to raise more tax revenues...
...council approved the name change last October, but delayed the sign switch for six months because local businessmen said they needed time to adjust...
...campaigning. The heat, brilliant and soaking, comes soon after first light. On the edge of a town, the caravan shudders to a stop. The candidates pile onto the flatbed back of a pickup truck, smear on dabs of melting suntan cream and flip the switch of a cassette player. To the scratchy strains of martial music, they start downhill, making a short tour and ending up under the spreading roots of the giant ceiba trees, planted to provide a parasol of shade over the baking town square. The little parade passes by rusting cars, yelping dogs, gawkers peering...
Wealth is not without its burdens, Kahn notes. In the same paragraph he reports that Jock had thrifty sets of golf-clubs and a servant to switch channels on his television set. Although no one bore him "jealousy or rancor," his wealth isolated him from other men. Kahn claims. But Kahn describes Whitney's social schedule as hectic and emphasizes that Jock drew friends from many walks of life. He had "a great emotional need to feel useful." Philanthropy filled the need but it raised the problem of where to send the checks. Yale or Groton...
After about four commercials, the scene would switch to the media end of the FBI operations. To show young viewers the multiplicity of talents needed by today's FBI, we could watch a real FBI media manipulator at work. See the media manipulator talk to his buddies at certain newspapers across the country that were known as friendly to the FBI. See him leak 'a pre-written story about alleged communist infiltration in King's operation to the network of papers. The next day, see them all print the identical story, all repeat the same factual errors, and all attribute...