Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Partisan political motives of the Senate's majority Democrats were apparent in their treatment of the Republicans' highly publicized Kemp-Roth amendment, which called for slashing income tax rates by 33% over the next three years. On a virtual party-line vote, the Senate two weeks ago killed Kemp-Roth, 60 to 36. But, with barely a blush, the Democrats last week rammed through an amendment introduced by Georgia Conservative Sam Nunn that could cut taxes $164.5 billion by 1983. The measure differed from Kemp-Roth by a provision that it go into effect only if specified decreases...
...opposed in principle to an all-parties conference, but we are opposed to going with preconceived conditions. For example, the Anglo-American plan would liquidate the Rhodesian security forces. This would lead to absolute chaos. Then they want to establish an appointee of the British government as virtual dictator. We wonder why this is necessary. The Americans and British say [Joshua] Nkomo is the man, that you can forget [Robert] Mugabe. Now, I don't say that [British Foreign Secretary David] Owen and Vance specifically say they love Nkomo and they want him appointed. They are going along with...
...China. The climate in summer is a sauna bath; almost everything worth seeing requires climbing. A must in any season is Lomotil or another anti-diarrhetic, and throat lozenges, to combat the dust and coal smoke in the air. The F.F. must be prepared in advance for the virtual or entire absence of: air conditioning, ice water, ice cubes, ice cream, poached eggs, hamburgers, French fries, lamb chops, orange juice, cocktails, nightclubs, good grape wine, potable soft drinks (a prevalent banana concoction tastes like carbonated Brylcreem); cigars, low-tar cigarettes and Di-Gel; Kleenex, Band-Aids, shower curtains, shoeshines...
Representative Sam Devine of Ohio was about to start home late one evening when the telephone rang. It was Jimmy Carter, seeking support for his veto of the public works bill. The call was a little grating to Republican Devine because the President had been making a virtual family project of unseating him in next month's elections. Carter and Rosalynn had both gone to Ohio to speak against Devine, and Miss Lillian was scheduled to campaign there too until she was diverted to attend the Pope's funeral. So Devine was noncommittal to Carter...
...Paul had died so abruptly that he left no funeral instructions, but the Cardinals quickly decided upon the style of simple, stately rites that had been held for Pope Paul VI eight weeks ago. They kept to an open-air Mass in St. Peter's Square, despite the virtual certainty of rain, so as not to disappoint the more than 50,000 people who, rain or shine, desired to attend. At one point during the Requiem, a downpour drenched the solitary coffin, and aides rushed up with umbrellas to shield the 90 white-mitered Cardinals...