Word: tags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just to keep the record straight, attachment of the tag to Judge Miner was by no means sardonic...
...treatment plants to cope with the phosphate-based detergents responsible for much of Lake Erie's pollution, for example, would come to $230 million-a $23 investment for each of the 10 million residents on the U.S. side of the Lake Erie basin. The $700 million annual price tag for industrial and power-plant pollution would add a mere 200 to 300 to most consumers' monthly electric bills. However unpopular such extra tariffs might be, the price is modest if it will buy the fresh air and clean water that is fast becoming only a memory...
...about the male robin who, upon finding a brown egg in his nest, inquired of his wife regarding this phenomenon. She replied that she had done it for a lark. The professor remembered having heard the joke retold later by a Briton who told it intact, except for the tag line, which became: "I did it for a sparrow." This, the professor insisted, made it difficult to believe in English humor...
Stick in the Mud. The net impact of the first half of the 91st Congress was so ambiguous that politicians could readily tag it in any way that served their purposes. Democrat Mansfield called the performance "responsible and respectable." House Republican Leader Gerald Ford termed it a "dolittle Congress, a treading-water Congress, a stick-in-the-mud assembly." In fact, the Congress was indecisive. It both declined to advance much of Nixon's legislative program and failed to establish any clear opposition program of its own. Only belatedly did Congress attend to even its basic housekeeping chores...
...price tag is modest: $91 million per year for the recommended new programs, plus continuing the growth of federal funding for present social science projects at a rate of 12% to 18% each year. Bills embodying some ideas in the report have been introduced in Congress during the past two years, but have made little real progress. Nonetheless, the BASS report and its counterparts released in the past 18 months by other groups put social scientists on notice. "If they are to contribute effectively to the quality of life," warns the BASS committee, "they may have to move more rapidly...