Word: though
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congress, though, is determined to yank some of the FTC's teeth. The House Commerce Committee voted to give Congress a veto power over all commission regulations. This would be the first time that any federal regulator had been so controlled. By a lopsided 223 to 147 vote, the House two weeks ago recommended canceling commission plans to force undertakers to disclose their prices fully and in advance. Representative Bill Frenzel of Minnesota suggested that every FTC staff member and all five commissioners "should spend 20 years at hard labor filling in their own asinine forms." The Senate Commerce...
Edward Kennedy: Though his advisers include Keynesian luminaries Walter Heller, Joseph Pechman and Arthur Okun, Kennedy is playing down his 17-year Senate record as a liberal Big Spender and emphasizing his economic "pragmatism." Last week Mobil's outspoken public affairs vice president, Herbert Schmertz, joined the Kennedy campaign staff as a top media adviser, even though Schmertz has repeatedly condemned the Senator's attacks on the oil industry. Kennedy supports the budget-paring efforts of Carter, but he fought this year to protect social spending programs from major cuts and co-sponsored legislation for such programs...
...profit-grubbing plunderers of the environment, but he is having trouble fitting his "small is beautiful" philosophy to the realities of a $2.4 trillion economy. Brown convincingly argues that the nation's throw-away economy squanders scarce resources; yet he would vastly expand exploration of outer space even though the payoff is doubtful at best. He calls for a ban on new nuclear power plants and would give much more of a subsidy to solar power, though almost every study shows that over the next two decades solar can supply only a small fraction of the nation...
...earth in 1500 B.C. before settling into orbit as the planet Venus. The cataclysmic encounter, he claimed, caused hurricanes and floods and an interruption in the earth's rotation, thus explaining such seemingly miraculous events described in the Old Testament as the parting of the Red Sea. Though his ideas earned him visionary status among a youthful following, he sought but never obtained recognition from scholars, many of whom referred to him as the "Grand Old Man of the Fringe...
This fall TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan, with two other reporters, toured the Ukraine. Though the itinerary was controlled, the officials did not monitor actual interviews. Nelan's report...