Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic story in the late '70s is a big story, if not the big story," says George Taber, who, as TIME'S Washington-based economics correspondent since 1977, may be somewhat partial to the subject. Even before he began work on this week's big story about the "Topsy-Turvy Economy," Taber was hearing frequent complaints that there was no "new Keynes" to explain or solve inflation, declining productivity and the other persistent problems of the decade. "At the same time," he says, "there has been excited talk about a group of fresh, unorthodox economists...
...than a young man's. Because shoes conform to a man's feet, you can later identify in court the feet that made a track, even if the shoes used during the crime were thrown away: the distinctive "pressure patterns," "wear points" and the "triangle" between the big and second toe are dead giveaways. You can track a man walking on rocks to disguise his trail by looking for stones separated from the surrounding soil...
Lawrence followed the tracks deep into the desert to a low adobe house behind a big stand of sagebrush. "It hit my mind that gray sage don't grow that tall," he remembers. "I dropped to the ground and rolled under my truck with my gun. I figured I was about to get my head blowed off." The sagebrush was piled on top of more than a thousand pounds of marijuana. But the smugglers had gone to town for some sleep. Lawrence and a dozen agents were waiting when they got back...
...that such issues should not be resolved by tampering with the Constitution. In nearby Farmington, a dozen people, men in overalls and mothers with children, perched on stools in an empty grocery store as Gore greeted them. An 11-year-old boy asked the Congressman's opinion of Big Oil, and a grocer complained that the commodities market was being manipulated...
...years, the great American promise was not a chicken in every pot but a big car in every garage. No more. With fuel prices edging into three digits, buyers have been thinking less about class and more about gas. As a result, car lots are clogged with 2 million unsold autos, many of them yesterday's glamorous giants, and dealers have become desperate...