Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began to wonder why anyone expected the Harvard defense to stop the mighty Penn ground attack on its astroturf field, where it had been undefeated in seven previous encounters...
Sure, a $15 billion tax cut for individuals sounds awesome. However, when it translates into $5 a week for my family and this is more than offset by the increase in Social Security taxes, I am hardly pleasantly surprised. And the politicians wonder about the current mood of the people. I do not feel Congress got the message; apparently it got lost somewhere in the mail...
...rebate proposal for workers whose wage hikes fall behind the inflation rate was termed "innovative" by some economists. But others wonder whether it might not simply add to inflation if the rate soars beyond 7% and millions of workers then get a tax rebate. An 8% inflation rate could cost the government about $10 billion in rebates...
...wonder, says Silberman, is that blacks did not explode sooner. Instead, they sublimated their rage with elaborate "toasting sessions" at which they would spin tall tales about underdogs outfoxing their oppressors, or celebrate the likes of "the Great MacDaddy" ("Got a tombstone disposition and a graveyard mind"), who would turn white values on their head by being the "baddest nigger." In the 1960s black militants used such folk heroes as role models; Black Panther Bobby Seale named his son after a famous badman of 19th century ballads named Stagolee, "a bad nigger off the block...
Another problem is whether farmers can keep up the rate of technological innovation that has made U.S. agriculture the productivity wonder of the world. So far, agricultural tinkerers are continuing to develop new techniques and devices. One of them: a herbicide sprayer with a receiver that catches any spray that does not hit a plant and recycles it into the pump, economizing on spray and preventing pollution of the ground. Another innovation is an irrigation system that covers even more ground than a center-pivot machine; it is a diesel-powered contraption that pushes a boom a half mile long...