Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It wasn't a handful of well-financed professionals who defeated the lobby-disclosure bill. Tens of thousands of environmentalists, religious activists and civil libertarians saw this bill as an assault on their right to communicate with Congress. The bill would have required massive and expensive record keeping by...
>Raise interest rates to make dollar investments more attractive. The Federal Reserve moved last week, letting the Fed funds rate (at which banks lend to one another) rise from 7⅞% to 8%, and increasing the discount rate (at which member banks borrow from the Fed) from 7¼% to...
In one of international aviation's biggest jams yet, tens of thousands of passengers were stranded for up to five days at Europe's airports last week. Many Americans traveling to Europe on cut-rate flights found that there were not enough bargain seats to accommodate the heavy...
Tens of thousands of cattlemen survived only on the sufferance of country bankers from 1974 through 1977, when any businessman could see that the cost of raising steers and cows was higher than the price for selling them. Cattlemen cut their herds from 132 million in 1975 to 115 million...
"Viva Jimmy! Hola Jimmy!" shouted tens of thousands of exuberant Panamanians last week as they greeted Jimmy Carter at a rally in Panama City's Cinco de Mayo Plaza. While the President beamed, Strongman Omar Torrijos kissed Rosalynn and declared that her husband "had the courage to throw himself...