Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Carter blamed his defeat on congressional spinelessness in an election year. "I recognize the political pressures," he said in his veto message. "I know this is a difficult issue for many members of Congress." Nevertheless, he added, the gas tax was "good public policy and good common sense." Without this kind of action to conserve energy, the U.S. would "remain dangerously vulnerable to severe economic disruptions from terrorism, accident, embargo...
...scheme caught on as only a California hustle can. Pawnshops did a booming business, as players hocked stereos to raise the initial fee. Most players, however, were middle-class suburbanites out to fight inflation. Everyone seemed to know someone who had indeed won $16,000. There were runs on local banks for $50 and $100 bills to be used in the night's gaming. Dentists reported patients, even with mouths full of cotton, soliciting them to join the club. Games were held in unlikely hideaways, including Hollywood sound studios, chartered buses and the Grand Salon of the Queen Mary...
...both Kach and a little-known shadow world of underground terrorist organizations. One anonymous telephone caller to an Israeli news service claimed responsibility for the West Bank explosions in the name of the "Israeli Freedom Fighters Movement-TerrorAgainst Terror." Nobody, not even the Israeli security apparatus, seemed to know much about the identity of such groups...
Columnist Jack Anderson, who specializes in unearthing governmental misdeeds, grades the Carter Administration "a little below normal-less corrupt than Nixon, of course, but more corrupt than Ford, L.B. J. or J.F.K. Perhaps Carter doesn't know any better, maybe it's the way they play politics in Georgia." From the outset Joe Kraft has been unimpressed with Carter, regarding him as an "unstructured mind" incapable of consistent policymaking. In Kraft's view, Carter lacks a political base, which he makes up for by assembling 7% of this group, 14% of another-a "remainder candidate," driven...
...cultivated a rock garden full of snakes, and bred spaniels in the state rooms. Ennui soon turned to hatred. One night during a dinner party she placed a revolver beside her plate. Her startled partner asked her what she meant to do with it. "Oh! I don't know, I might just shoot Marlborough...