Word: incrementally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feels that 50% of the line should be raised on stilts over the unstable ground. TAPS wants to bury 90% of the line where it will be safe from vandals. Besides, lifting the pipe on stilts costs about 25% to 60% more per mile than burying it?quite an increment on a $1.7 billion job. Details clearly have to be worked out. Ray Morris of the Federal Water Quality Administration describes the first plans that he saw last year: "We reviewed cartoons. That's what they were?cartoons...
...announcement of any kind be made for 100 days, or if that were not possible, for at least another 60 days. Nixon heard the chiefs out at a luncheon meeting in the Pentagon. Then, only a few hours before his telecast, he decided to lump the 50,000 increment and the 100,000 increment together, stretching the deadline from eight months to twelve...
...their pay raise in the light of the 41% hike that Congressmen had voted for themselves the previous February, were infuriated rather than satisfied. Government employees generally were scheduled to receive another small raise this July 1. As an anti-inflation measure, however, the Nixon Administration proposed deferring that increment for six months...