Word: america
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mentioned the possibility that the Soviet troops are in Cuba to forestall a Cuban uprising while Castro sends his own troops to do the Soviets' work around the globe, including probably the Panama Canal and the rest of Central and South America. Does anyone seriously believe they are there to attack Key West...
...superpower and balances the inherent heavy burdens against the benefits. How such a process turns out could set America's course for the closing decades of the century...
...Smith, executive director of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a group similar to the National Council of Churches but aimed directly at investment policy says institutional churches will emerge as a cohesive power, questioning the future of nuclear energy in America...
Paul A. Volcker, the cigar-chomping chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, sent America off on its latest economic wilderness adventure by announcing two weeks ago an anti-inflation program that did not just raise the discount rate--the Fed's interest rate on money it lends to member banks--but changed the very nature of how the Fed controls the money supply. Instead of trying to curtail the boom in credit by manipulating interest rates, Volcker announced, the Fed would henceforth apply direct controls to the money supply, raising member banks' reserve requirements and using other methods to keep...
...bedfellows argue that narrow monetary policy can't solve domestic inflation when well over half that inflation traces its lineage to the tankered waters of the Persian Gulf. If OPEC intends further price hikes--as it apparently does--then to make headway against inflation Volcker will have to squeeze America's economic arteries tight enough to cause gangrene. Paul Samuelson, Ec 10's law-giver, calls this "sadism...