Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winning many of the common folk, but he has been straining Washington's relations with their leaders. Notes former senior U.S. diplomat George Ball: "I think the Administration is pursuing the human rights business without fully taking all implications into account. To some extent it has become a stuck needle, getting in the way of a lot of things which might be more important in the long term." Others point to the selective morality of Carter's stand; he sharply assails some repressive countries, but he goes easier on those that the U.S. considers vital to its own interests. Chile...
...remarkable admission, Carter said that he was "surprised" by the Soviets' bitter reaction. His own inexperience might account for his rude shock, but why did not his seasoned foreign policy aides forewarn him? Perhaps because they figure, as one top White House foreign policy aide says, that the Kremlin's fulminations are "80% Soviet propaganda" intended to force the U.S. to dilute its comprehensive, tough position on arms control. Carter has thus vowed to "hang tough." He feels that there is nothing wrong with making the Soviets squirm occasionally, and that the U.S. public has been getting fed up with...
More important to Detroit than the subcompact trade-which, while growing fast, still accounts for just a bit more than 10% of U.S. sales-is the market for mid-size vehicles. This broad bracket, embracing compacts (such as Chevrolet's Nova and Buick's Skylark) as well as intermediates (Chevrolet's Chevelle, Ford's LTD II) and what the industry chooses to call luxury small intermediates (Chrysler's Le Baron and Diplomat), is accounting for 54% of all U.S. auto sales this year. By contrast, the traditional standard or full-size cars now account...
...good year will provide at least a bit of breathing space for the manufacturers, who soon will be hit by costly new federal energy-saving regulations. A Federal Energy Administration study shows that air conditioners account for 7% of the electricity used in the U.S. The FEA estimates that air conditioning uses up the equivalent of 1 million bbl. per day of oil, or 2.5% of the U.S.'s daily energy consumption. More than 70% of all new homes built in the U.S. now have central air conditioning, and 53% of all older homes have at least one room...
...calls for "ethics to be removed temporarily from the hands of the philosophers and biol-ogicized." Though Wilson is hazy about what a biologicized ethic might be, he suggests there could be different moral strictures for males and females, old and young. An ethic of children, he says, might account for their genetically based resistance to parental control, as well as for the tendency of teen-agers to band together and set their own rules...