Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alger Hiss's conviction for perjury--which at the time Ellsberg believed was justified--was another factor making him "more open to the government account of the Cold War, more skeptical of the radicals," he says. Hiss was a "pillar of the establishment who had lied." A few weeks later, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) had embarked on his campaign to get so called reds and liberals out of office...
...props of the drama in their pictures do not represent the most significant aspects of their artistic progress. Many of the themes and subjects they used were Romantic holdovers. Their achievement was rather that they changed the dramatic narrative of art from a third-person to a first-person account; that they made the plastic means convey not only the emotions of the characters within the picture, but the emotions of the artist...
...used to revoke their eligibility, play a dangerous game of concealment from Government, as well as amateur, officials. As one former Olympian explains, "If it's all done in cash, who's going to trace it? I never used to deposit the money in a checking account. I always put it in safe-deposit boxes because of the IRS. I always paid cash for everything." Another athlete admits that he did not file tax returns on his track earnings. Says he: "I felt the AAU would find out that I was paying income tax on money I shouldn...
...each month. All the twelve Federal Reserve bank presidents are there, even if they are not members of the committee at the moment. Their aim is to agree upon a policy directive to be passed on to the manager of the Federal Reserve system's open-market account at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York...
Forceful Rebuttal. Beckerman's 1975 book, Two Cheers for the Affluent Society, has become one of the most forceful rebuttals of the doomsday forecasts. He argues that the doomsayers have not taken account of how the market system can motivate public and private enterprise to develop successful alternatives. As for population, says he, birth rates will fall dramatically as living standards rise, especially in Third World countries. Food shortages will fade as production techniques improve. Pollution can be controlled when it is recognized that the problem is not growth but a misallocation of resources. Says he: "Because...