Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's balance of payments by replacing Italy's depleted store of monetary reserves with dollars borrowed by state-run and private corporations from private banks in Europe-a step that no one had thought of taking before. Other countries with basically sound currencies can well adopt the same technique when they are faced with temporary capital outflows. Because the government guaranteed repayment of the loans and the country was considered a good risk, Italian firms got a plentiful supply of money at favorable rates. Carli arranged for Italian corporations to borrow $1.24 billion in Eurodollars at rates...
...loudest complaint voiced against the Vice President was about his habit of attacking political enemies personally. The critics ranged from Iowa's moderate Robert Ray. who urged Agnew to adopt a positive tone, to California's conservative Ronald Reagan, who suggested that the Vice President dodge inflammatory statements about individuals. If necessary, said Reagan, the Vice President could always claim that he had not read a provocative speech or statement and therefore could not comment on it. Oklahoma's conservative Dewey Bartlett reminded the Vice President that he had been personally-and unsuccessfully-asked not to criticize...
...press, whose "columnists and commentators" he had labeled "ideological antagonists" the night before. Among those who pressed him on that point were Michigan's William Milliken, Delaware's Russell Peterson and New Jersey's William Cahill, who urged Agnew to abandon his "shotgun" attacks and adopt a more precisely targeted "rifleshot" approach...
Another suggestion of the report, which urges that businesses "adopt" groups of young people to give them the opportunity to see adults at work, has already been tried by a few firms...
...remain out of the work force until their late 20s. "They are still questioning family tradition, family destiny, family fate, family culture and family curse." Naturally, their very existence unsettles the families from which they sprang, and delays the development of the new life-styles that they will eventually adopt...