Word: anties
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...needed an economic victory. Raging inflation was undermining the economy at home; overseas, the plunge in the value of the dollar posed a gigantic threat to the stability of the whole world financial system. Wild routs on the currency and stock exchanges were threatening to make his Stage II anti-inflation program a joke before it ever had a chance to get started...
...from the world business community and provoked the most volcanic response on financial markets since Richard Nixon's surprise announcement of a wage-price freeze in 1971. The essence of the program: massive intervention on exchange markets to prop up the dollar and a switch to a really tough anti-inflation policy...
...would be about. Promptly on the hour, a grim-faced Jimmy Carter strode into a briefing room, climbed onto the podium and read a terse statement: "The continuing decline in the exchange value of the dollar threatens economic progress at home and abroad, and the success of our anti-inflation program ... It is now necessary...
...amalgamation of special interests, sparked on by deliberate attempts at creating social discontent. Groups such as the highway lobby, medical associations, state employees and state contractors have provided King with $1.3 million of campaign boodle. His espousal of inflexible mandatory prison sentences, Proposition 13, the death penalty and anti-abortion legislation has earned King the support of New Hampshire Gov. Meldrim Thomson and the ubiquitous Howard Jarvis...
...with the country and to two long stays on the subcontinent. An affair with an Egyptian tram conductor taught him something else about the tenuous meetings of East and West. He got it all down in A Passage to India (1924), an unquestioned masterpiece. The novel's satiric anti-colonialism riled many; British civil servants sailing out to India threw the book overboard. Some of Forster's acid observations on the Raj were effectively challenged, but the art of the novel was beyond refutation. It sang with the poetry of its Indian settings, the hope that British...