Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billing of "Mr. Conservative." A Democratic-controlled legislature has forced him to compromise. Though he has pared welfare rolls and held down property taxes, he has had to raise income taxes. Since he took office, the state budget has doubled, reaching $9.3 billion for fiscal 1974. But to wind up his governorship with a conservative flourish, Reagan has concocted a scheme that would put a constitutional limit on the percentage of personal income tax that Californians must pay to the state...
...with Libya is by now a bit spurious. The two countries are scheduled to merge Sept. 1, and a major aim of the newly created state will be to strengthen Arab unity against Israel. The Israelis, for their part, fully expected that some of the planes would wind up in Egyptian hands. Moreover, they have no reason to be particularly upset by the news, since the highly trained Israeli air force, which has about 450 jet fighters, including 110 U.S. Phantoms and 50 Mirages of its own, is patently superior to Egypt's lackluster low-profile air force...
...petals to earth. "Not at all," retorted the 74-year-old artist. "It's more like a flamingo." Even so, Calder has had to redesign part of the 10-ton carbon-steel structure. "This is supposed to be a stabile," he explained, "but with Chicago's wind, we have to be careful it doesn't become a mobile...
Starter Barry Malinowski and reliever Tom O'Neill, on the other hand, kept Tufts's halves of the innings moving at a rather swift pace as they combined for a four-hitter. A near gale wind blowing out toward center field helped the hitting on both sides. Tufts collected two of its three runs on a wind-blown homer in the third off the bat of Jumbo starting pitcher Mitch Shaw...
Cronin pitched three innings in relief, allowing only a solo wind-aided round-tripper in the eighth inning...