Word: toward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what the so-called women's libbers have brought about with ERA and is an opportunity for any devious female to bring the courts and lawyers into the sanctity of the home and the bedroom. The piece of legislation that permits the Rideout case is another step toward bringing complete chaos to our country...
Most of the legislation on the congressional agenda reflects the members' cost-cutting mood. "Congress has an eye toward fiscal restraint," says Byrd. "In the last Congress we cut appropriations about $15 billion. In the upcoming Congress, we'll see a continuation of that mood." Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, says he is determined to hold the line on spending. He admits that his committee work has modified his views. "I have been educated," he says. "I have become convinced that we've got to be more prudent and restrained and selective...
...Washington's attitude toward forest power seems somewhat muddled. The Department of Energy is spending $42 million on wood-energy projects of all sorts, but the tax provisions of the Carter energy program do not give homeowners credits for the purchase of wood stoves, even though such credits are granted to families that save energy by adding insulation, solar panels and even windmills to their homes. One idea getting some attention from DOE officials is a feasibility study by a subsidiary of New Hampshire's Wheelabrator-Frye Inc. to build a wood-fueled electricity-and steam-generating plant...
...June 19, 1976, an alien vessel, hurtling toward Mars, blasted its remaining rocket engine and moved into an elliptical orbit. It was the first of twin Viking spacecraft, each with an orbiter and a lander, launched by NASA to help satisfy man's curiosity about the possibilities of life on the planet. The Viking I orbiter's immediate chore was to survey the Martian surface and transmit pictures of potential landing sites. Once the lander was safely down (on July 20, 1976), the orbiter began snapping away at its aerial photographic study...
...recreation only. The long trips he reserves for his imagination. "A song is a vessel you fill with your living," Bok once wrote, a definition full of fancy homespun that suits a man who calls himself "a traditional folk singer," but whose craft and dreams are directed toward something a little grander. Toward being a folk artist. As an anthropologist might...