Word: unsound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Westigard rightly points out that TVA still depends on coal and nuclear power for most of its energy. However, while I did not intend to imply that the TVA had ceased to rely on environmentally unsound sources of energy, I do stand by my contention that the new directors appointed by President Carter, David Freeman and Richard Freeman, are attempting to restore to the TVA some of its more people-oriented goals, along the lines of the land reclamation projects of the 1930s. (I did not contend in the article that the TVA had evidenced any commitment to the land...
...more for personal identity by the combatants than real evaluation of where we are headed. The AFL-CIO's George Meany stormed that the whole budget was an attack on "average Americans." Former Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Wilbur Cohen called the small adjustments in Social Security "tragic, unsound." And by the end of the week, Congress's Black Caucus had declared the budget "immoral." Each critic seemed blindfolded, feeling a leg of the elephant and calling it a tree...
Everybody worries about how big the tax load is. Isn't anybody worrying about how badly the tax load is distributed? Doesn't anyone think an unjust and unsound tax system might be the cause rather than the result of an economy sick with inflation and unemployment...
...federal examiners called the irregularities "unsafe and unsound" banking practices. For failing to disclose them to stockholders, the examiners accused Lance and the banks of "fraud and deceit." Lance and the banks admitted no wrongdoing. Indeed, Lance in the past has blamed part of his troubles on "careless, erroneous or biased reporting" by the press. But he and the banks signed a consent decree, promising not to commit these kinds of questionable acts in the future. The decree bars Lance from ever again bouncing a check except in an "isolated and inadvertent" case. In addition, Lance agreed to give...
...national adoption by all medical schools of the Educational Opportunity Bank, one of the precursors of Dr. Silber's proposal. Since the Ed Op Bank had seemed too bold for universities, the medical schools suggested it on a pilot scale. The plan foundered not because it was fiscally unsound but because universities and parents somehow were coping with pre-inflation tuitions and change was politically unpopular...