Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe that part of Brezhnev sincerely sought, if not peace in the Western sense, then surcease from the danger and risks and struggles of a lifetime. When I met him he had gone through the Stalin purges of the '30s (indeed, his first big jump up the ladder took place then), the Second World War, a new wave of purges, the power struggle following the death of Stalin and the intrigue that led to the overthrow of Khrushchev and catapulted Brezhnev to the top. He seemed at once exuberant and spent, eager to prevail but at minimum risk...
...Falwell is moving in a big way into political activism on the national scene. His patriotic rally made its debut at the capitol in Richmond Sept. 13. Last week, with an entourage of 50 (choir, soloists, sound technicians, a bodyguard), he went to Columbus, and Harrisburg, Pa. This week it will be Albany. In cooperation with Washington-based New Right political groups, he has just organized his first purely secular enterprise, Moral Majority Inc., and plans to hit all 50 states within 18 months. He sees Moral Majority as a much needed antidote to progressive public interest organizations like Common...
Falwell enjoys taking big risks, like starting up a new college from scratch in less than a year, as he did with Liberty Baptist College, begun in 1971. Now Falwell is betting that his views, values and chauvinist spirit will strike a plangent chord in the hearts of millions of conservative Protestants, many of whom have thus far been politically apathetic...
...scurrying once again to buy into their favorite hedge against disaster. With people battered by inflation and recession, worried about oil and lacking confidence in leaders and cures, the gold rush of '79 has turned into a stampede as schoolboys, housewives and pensioners have jumped in along with big investors. It is a surge that bodes little good for late-coming, small investors, the fragile international monetary system, the dollar and even some national economies...
...that gold would fall, and now had to run to buy to cover their short positions. At the same time, two events added to doubts that Western policymakers would come to grips effectively with their common economic problems. In Paris the finance ministers and central bankers of the Big Five monetary powers-Germany, Japan, France, Britain and the U.S.-failed to end a potentially damaging interest rate war among them. And the International Monetary Fund issued a gloomy study predicting a worsening economic outlook...