Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such odd places as Harvard University, suggesting that Carter may be riding a thought wave. Don Price, dean of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, says that economists and political scientists have visibly altered some of their concerns in the past few years and there is alarm about what the Government's size, inefficiency and regulatory zeal is doing to America's socioeconomic system...
Plans for the demonstration had been viewed with alarm by Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., and with something approaching hysteria by William Loeb, the abrasively conservative editor of the Manchester Union Leader, who likened the protesters to "Nazi storm troopers under Hitler." But when Thomson helicoptered to the site the day after the occupation, he was greeted politely by the demonstrators despite his insistence that they leave. "You have the right to an opinion opposite to that of other people, and you have come to let the world know your side," Thomson told the protesters. "But," he added, "you are violating...
These twin projections of Soviet influence reaching northward alarm the Arab states situated above black Africa. "Angola yesterday, Zaire today, Sudan tomorrow," worries the prestigious Cairo daily al Ahram. What troubles the Arabs particularly is that if the Soviets can pull both Ethiopia and Somalia firmly into their orbit, they may successfully create an axis of influence along the African Horn that in time of crisis could give them control of the Bab el Mandeb Strait linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden...
...damn lie to suggest that there isn't enough competition in the oil business," charged Union Oil Chairman and President Fred Hartley in response to Carter's claim that there was not. While praising the thrust of Carter's energy alarm, General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy protested that some of the President's Washington-oriented advisers, far more than Carter, "are influenced by their own life-styles and they don't understand the dimension of the American public." A less biased criticism of Carter's plan was that its measures were far milder than those suggested by the apocalyptic terms...
...rest of the story seems all too familiar. The press investigates the scandal, Jackson digs her own grave, and she finally declares in Nixonian fashion, "You won't kick me around any more." Although Nixon's 1962 retirement proved to be a false alarm, Jackson's statement luckily appears more reliable; her last line is followed by the closing credits...