Word: vow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, Administration officials vow to keep the guidelines in effect as long as necessary to bring inflation down to an acceptable rate. Since the program aims at reducing the rate by only half a percentage point a year, that could take a very long time. Price increases actually slowed down to a 7% annual rate in the third quarter, a welcome relief from the 11 % pace of the previous three months, but the rate is expected to average around 8% for 1978 as a whole and to be running at about that pace by year...
Still another difficulty involves the wording with which both sides pledge that they will not try to circumvent the terms of the accord. Although such a vow may seem superfluous, the Soviets could try to interpret it in a manner that would impede the transfer of weapon technology by the U.S. to other NATO members...
Worried public officials vow to fight Proposition 13 in the courts if it is ap proved next week. They intend to challenge it on a wide variety of legal grounds, including its possible unconstitutionality. But in hopes of preventing passage, they have also launched a public relations blitz...
...this makes a mockery of Carter's vow to discipline the budget process by requiring each department to justify every dollar in its annual spending request. That approach, known as "zero-based budgeting," is saving little or no money and is simply creating a lot more paper work...
...state or, in Galileo's case, the church? Brecht has Galileo (Laurence Luckinbill) castigate himself toward the end of the play for a failure of integrity: "If only I had resisted! If only the scientists could have developed something like the Hippocratic oath of the physicians, a vow to use their knowledge for the welfare of humanity alone. As it now stands, the best one can hope for is a race of inventive dwarfs who can be hired for anything...