Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This means a pinch for domestic social programs. Democratic liberals, urban state Governors, big city mayors, many labor chieftains and black leaders all think that their constituencies are bearing an unfair share of the new frugality. They have powerful allies in Washington: the Cabinet members and other high-level bureaucrats who oversee domestic social-welfare programs. These men and women, in turn, have both public and back-door ties to influential members of Congress...
...Martha's Vineyard. When the hamburger chain finally found a scenic waterside site, executives promised a dignified New England façade-no Golden Arches. But Vineyarders, who have fought successfully in the past against traffic lights, shopping centers and jet planes, mounted a sizzling attack on Big...
...possessed by an impossible dream: to create as quickly as possible a modern industrial nation in the ancient sands of Persia. It was his advantage, but perhaps also his undoing, that he had the petrodollars to pursue that goal. He carried out some land reform, but the big money went to such projects as petrochemical factories and nuclear plants. Hundreds of thousands of peasant farmers moved to the cities to get jobs. Skyscrapers soared, as did inflation-to an estimated 50% last year...
...described as "the great game" for control of the warm-weather ports and lucrative trade routes between Suez and the Bay of Bengal is still being played, except that the chief contestants today are not imperial Britain and czarist Russia but the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and the big prize is not trade but oil. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (see interview) long has argued that in a situation of what he called "rough parity" between Moscow and Washington, the global balance could be profoundly affected by events at the regional level-and, in recent years, the tide...
Meanwhile, the Carter Administration was making extensive plans to entertain Teng when he makes his state visit to the U.S. later this month. The proposed program includes a trip to Texas, where Teng can discuss buying oil equipment, a journey to a big Midwestern farm and an extravaganza at Washington's Kennedy Center...