Word: tub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With consumer prices climbing, politicians belatedly have begun thumping the tub to squeeze out wasteful and excessive Government spending. Yet when it comes to cutting specific programs that benefit their own constituents, most lawmakers run for cover. One egregious case: Impact Aid, an ever expanding relic of the 1940s. Almost everyone in Washington agrees that it should be sharply reduced, but Congress is moving to expand it, adding well over $200 million in needless expenditures to next year's projected budget deficit of $48.5 billion. Having examined the tangled story of Impact Aid, TIME Washington Economic Correspondent George Taber filed...
Three-day work weeks. Sign-up bonuses as high as $7,000. A key to the company hot tub. Free orthodontia for all the children...
...winter, a running water faucet and one passenger in a car. For small kids, there are wall posters with cartoons showing what should be done to save: drive small cars, observe the 55-m.p.h. limit, keep the home heat below 70° and take showers rather than soaking in a tub full of hot water...
...President's tentative "opening to the left" inevitably displeased Chirac, whose indefatigable, tub-thumping anti-Communist campaign had contributed mightily to the center-right coalition's victory in the election. He quickly claimed that his party's "essential role" in the campaign had now given the Gaullists "legitimate means" to carry out their platform, which stresses law and order and faster economic growth. Not to be outdone by Giscard's promises of social change, Chirac, who plans to run for the presidency when Giscard's term expires, asserted that France needs "profound reforms, not superficial...
...grotesque pigs, both part wild boar. Inside the smoky communal hut, couples in hides and rough wool garments squat around the fire, spit-roasting a heavy pork leg and preparing sausages and black pudding made from skin, offal and gut. John Rossetti sheds his clothes, steps into a wood tub and begins to scrub off five days' grime with clay and hot water. John Rockcliff enters through the goatskin door, carrying a rat he has caught. It will be on the menu tomorrow...