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...zeal, the President also resorted to more questionable tactics. Though he had initially opposed a bill introduced by Herman Talmadge to pay farmers $2.3 billion for acreage taken out of production, the Administration reversed itself last week and supported the measure. Since last summer, DeConcini had been vainly urging the Administration to buy copper for Government stockpiles and thus relieve unemployment in the Arizona mines. Earlier this month, Mondale approached DeConcini on the matter. Said the Vice President: "We may be able to put something together." The week before the Senate vote, the White House offered...
...them still more by urging reservations or amendments on the second treaty when it comes up for a vote. If the Panamanians should decide to abandon the treaty, the U.S. will be left with its great ditch, but it will be surrounded by a hostile population. For all their zeal in defending what they take to be the national interest, the treaty opponents may well be sabotaging...
...energy are another source of food inflation. Last year $16 billion was spent just to package food. It is not so much the cost of food itself that is driving prices up, but the consumers' apparently insatiable demand for convenience and variety-and the food companies' zeal to satisfy those appetites...
...usually not proud of the hours they spend staring straight ahead; a book about destroying the tube can be a nice assuager of guilt. And Mander, a former advertising and public relations agent who grew disenchanted with his meal ticket in the late 1960s, exhorts with all the zeal of the convert and enthusiasm of the initiate. He rattles on like a college freshman who has just been alerted to the difference between illusion and reality. In fact, Mander argues that TV created this difference: "Unlike ordinary life, in which whatever you see actually exists outside you before...
...Stornik caught goalie Hynes out of the cage and smacked the puck into the net. The Cornell fans, who seemed to outnumber the Harvard contingent, cheered with more frantic zeal and went wild. They had seen it before, the explosive Cornell offense, and the Cornell crowd tasted victory...