Word: transiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first preference would be to enhance job opportunities, preferably on a continuing basis-and not just a quick, temporary, or transient effort toward employment. There are several job programs already evolved by Commerce, and the Administration structures are in place. They would be immediately available for expansion. There's a limit on what we can do in the job-enhancement area. Whatever we can't do in stimulating jobs I would make up with some form of tax reduction. I don't know yet the full level of economic stimulus to recommend. Perhaps I'll decide...
...year when neither major party candidate commands an unswervingly loyal national constituency. Thus relative trivialities (Carter's remarks to Playboy about lust, Ford's golfing trips from his congressional days) may prompt voters with a soft allegiance to one candidate to shift to an equally transient preference for the other. The debates have contributed heavily to the volatility -Ford gained after the first, Carter after the second-which underscores the importance of this week's third debate...
...doctors, clinics, medical labs and pharmacies that hauled in fat Government payments and fed kick backs to one another for unnecessary or fictional patient examinations, clinic visits, tests and prescriptions. The investigation was maddeningly difficult because both patients and personnel at the ghetto health centers tended to be transient, and the fraudulent paper work involved was hard to track in the disarray of federal and state bureaucracies. But Skinner quickly became convinced that he had "just scratched the surface." So 15 months ago, he created the Governmental Frauds Unit-first federal effort of its kind in the nation...
...Arabs believe that Israel is transient. It is here today but will not be here in 50 or 80 years. The Arabs have a great belief in absorption. In time, the Jews will be absorbed ... like a sponge," he said...
...retrenches, closing the club at two now instead of four a.m. The lavish vases of fresh-cut flowers--crisp white carnations and crowds of blue irises the color of twilight--are gone. The bare walls have emerged from behind them, triumphant. Heavy and silent, they tolerate the denim-bedecked transient dancers and ache from their loud stream of music. The smaller inanimate objects--little glass tables, sculptured plastic chairs, ashtrays that bear no name--huddle in groups, almost afraid: their conspiracy against the walls is over. 15 Lansdowne Street is waiting to become a warehouse again...