Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ENERGY. To resolve a year-long stalemate with Congress over how to cope with the energy crisis, Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb actively intervened on the Hill to work out a compromise that would roll back the price of domestic crude oil by about 12%, then gradually phase out controls during the ensuing 40 months. Zarb estimated that the bill could cut the price of gasoline and fuel oil by as much as 2.5? per gal., then let it rise gradually...
Trying again, Harris has begun to move out of the camper phase of his campaign. As one among all too many relative unknowns, he needs to reach more places faster and to be on radio and television. But he is still cramped by lack of money. Cut off from large donations by the campaign finance law, he is far behind many of his rivals in raising funds from small contributors. His latest financial report in September showed a $12,000 deficit, though Harris claims he has raised $400,000 and is now $2,000 in the black...
...returned to Washington from his trip with Ford to China and the Pacific, Kissinger held a one-hour press conference at which he defended his record and revealed that he was canceling plans to go to Moscow this week to discuss the stalemated negotiations over the second phase of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II). Said Kissinger: "I think there is no sense in going to Moscow until we have our positions prepared in great detail and until we are confident that on the Soviet side there is sufficient understanding on what is needed...
...certainly lose. The problem is a familiar one: severe inflation, particularly in food prices, and high unemployment (running to more than 1 million out of a population of 13 million). To head off possible uprisings, the government announced cuts in basic commodity prices and moved ahead with the second phase of a nationalization program, involving the mostly British-owned tea, rubber and coconut plantations...
...desultory try at being an artist. Failing at that, he became a teacher at third-rate boarding schools. He began a book, informing the curious that he was writing The History of the Eskimos. At about this time, says Biographer Sykes, Evelyn also entered "an extreme homosexual phase which, for the short time it lasted, was unrestrained emotionally and physically." After revealing this aspect of Waugh's nature, Sykes abruptly drops it, announcing that "names and details need not and should not be given." This bowdlerizing process takes place throughout Evelyn Waugh, giving the distinct impression of a book...