Word: uppers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Aside from Brooke's support of the recent tax bill, which Tsongas calls one of the worst ever to come through the Congress because its benefits are directed at the upper-income people, the biggest split seems to come over military and foreign affairs. Spurred on by Avi Nelson's right-wing challenge in the primary, Brooke reaffirmed his support for increased defense spending. He has criticized the administration for continuing with the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) without obtaining further concessions from the Soviets. Tsongas, on the other hand, is a full supporter of SALT, an opponent...
...life exploits of Rosa Lewis (1867-1952), a legendary Londoner who started her career as a Cockney skivvy, became for a time a mistress to the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), and wound up as the proprietor of the Cavendish Hotel, a slightly raffish establishment catering to the upper crust. Successes like Rosa's require bullheadedness and a certain animal cunning, qualities that Actress Gemma Jones mimes impressively. Her Louisa is a furious wren, an unbreakable China doll with a chin shaped like an eggshell and hard as a rock. "I just wanna be the best cook in England...
Stanley V. Dawson, assistant professor of Environmental Health Engineering at SPH, testified that the plant's expected emissions of the pollutant nitrogen dioxide are twice what the upper limit should...
Each of these skirmishes lasted nearly three minutes, and the entire battle often continued for more than an hour. Finally, as one minotaur gained the upper hand, his vanquished foe either left the burrow of his own accord or was actually pushed out by the winner (who invariably turned out to be the larger beetle). Thus, Palmer reports in Nature, the minotaur's horns, and perhaps similar horns in other beetles, seem to have been evolved for only one purpose: combat...
...Federal Reserve has been jacking up interest rates largely in order to contain an inflationary increase in the U.S. money supply, but so far it has failed. Money supply during the past month has shot up at an annual rate of about 12%, nearly double the board's upper target...