Word: anties
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that city leaders speak out, and lobbying for better protection for students both inside and outside school. Police have launched a Bureau of Investigative Service inquiry to determine the extent of adult involvement in the teenagers' walkouts, and dozens of community groups, such as the Urban League and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, have assembled informal conferences to discuss ways of cooling tempers within their communities...
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...
People will interpret the question as an attempt to restrict Harvard expansion, she added. "They'll get an anti-Harvard contingent to vote for it, then beat us over the head with it," she said. "We've gotten people to write to city councilors, and they don't like it much...
...PLAYED his cards. He has exposed the hand he plans to use in his bid to capture the Republican nomination for president. In his speech last week to the National Press Club he proposed linking American policy in the Middle East to the price of oil--a clear anti-Israel stance. This political gamble will certainly infuriate Jewish organizations, and, more importantly, will damage American interests in the Middle East...
Connally's appeasement of the Arabs (he has already received campaign contributions from Arab supporters) and his anti-Israel position ignore all of these considerations. His politics could be popular among Republicans and push him through the primaries. But he should beware that they could backfire in a general election, when Jews--absent from the Republican primaries--will back the Democratic candidate. Connally has tossed away any possibility for Jewish support, a factor that was crucial to the Republicans' victory in the presidential race of 1972, when many Jews voted conservatively...