Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Taiwanese Congress. More significantly, perhaps, China offers Carter the perfect foil against what he sees as an increasingly antagonistic Soviet Union. When he visited China last spring, Zbigniew Brzezinski stood on the Great Wall and pointed to the north, hinting of an alliance against "the polar bear." But in the balancing process, an effective independent China policy has been sacrificed to the game of superpower diplomacy...
Without any consumer products that bear his name, Charles Engelhard has never attracted much publicity or fame in the U.S. In black Africa, however, the man whose money built the Charles Engelhard Public Affairs Library at the Kennedy School was notorious. In less than 20 years, Engelhard built an inherited $20 million dollars into a global empire worth more than a quarter billion dollars at the time of his death...
...surprisingly, the kinds of issues Helms stresses bear no relation to the concrete problems of the constituency he courts: problems like North Carolina's wage scale, the lowest in the country...
...films like this - and Marathon Man a couple of years ago - detach the Nazis from the historical wickedness that their kind committed and that we do well to bear in mind, and make them into faintly risible characters, just a step or two away from Mel Brooks creations. No amount of fancy framing can finally distract us from this unfortunate and diminuating effect...
...years. The four necessities--food, housing, energy, and health care--account for over 80 per cent of inflation, he maintains. In health care, for instance, there is no check on greed--third parties, the insurance companies, pay for most treatment, and doctors and hospitals charge whatever the "market" will bear. The result: spiraling insurance premiums and profits, soaring medical costs, and inflation. The only possible solution is national health insurance, to remove the profit motive, to ensure adequate medical care...