Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Obviously, we have good reason to doubt Russia's intentions. But we often paint them as stronger, more internally secure and more expansionist than they really are, while downplaying our own international transgressions and playing up our weaknesses (worst case analysis). Still, before we totally swallow the line of right...
On the other hand, if the price rises to, say, $3 a bushel in six months' time, the farmer would not collect that extra 25?-a-bushel profit. But farmers are often willing to forgo the opportunity for additional profit in order to guarantee in advance what they consider...
Actually, Sears cares less for issues than he does for the challenge of the contest. He is a political technician who could, and did, consider working for other Republican candidates this year, including Howard Baker. As late as the summer of 1978, Reagan was promising party hard-liners still bristling...
...requirement last year to make rationing only a last-ditch action. Also, details of an emergency rationing plan are not expected to be ready before this autumn. It will contain many exemptions that the public will consider unfair; for example, people with company cars stand to get considerably more gas than ordinary drivers. The sad result of all this: the U.S. has neither a consumption-cutting gasoline tax nor a workable and effective rationing program to fall back on if a shortage suddenly develops...
Let us also consider some of the less sanguine projections. The disaffected young would have been rebelliously out front browbeating the Establishment in waves of dissent that would have continued to expand after the 1960s. Widespread religious fervor would have found a channel in a holy crusade against technology. Assassinations...