Word: boldest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country that is least capable of recovery made the boldest promises. Premier Giulio Andreotti pledged to tame inflation and lift Italy's economic growth rate to 3.7% by cutting government expenditures, reducing welfare outlays and funneling more funds into industry. Milan's Corriere della Sera called Andreotti's pledges "gambling Italy's credibility...
...financier's boldest takeover attempt was his 1954 assault on Montgomery Ward. He spent $500,000 soliciting proxies, and barnstormed the country to line up nearly a third of the mailorder firm's voting stock, but ultimately failed to gain control. So he went after a slightly smaller target: American Motors. Wolfson had bought $4 million of AMC stock before Chairman George Romney talked him out of a takeover and converted him " into a messianic promoter of the Rambler. Wolfson would talk up the little car to barbers, taxi drivers, anyone he encountered, even offering to finance their...
...opened a local news office in Long Beach, 20 miles to the south, a news bureau in San Bernardino, 55 miles to the east, and another in Santa Barbara, 85 miles to the west-all in hopes of winning new readers in those outposts. Last week, in the boldest act of press imperialism since the New York Times launched a short-lived California edition 16 years ago, the Los Angeles paper invaded San Diego, 110 miles to the south. The Times opened a 26-member editorial office there, committed an estimated $1.5 million to its first year of operation, rented...
...member. At high noon this Thursday, Jan. 19, Speaker Tip O'Neill in the House and Vice President Walter Mondale in the Senate will smartly rap their gavels on the polished desks before them. Thus will begin the second session of the 95th Congress, one of the boldest and balkiest in memory...
Surely it is Egypt's President Anwar Sadat. His being the first Arab leader to visit Israel-and thereby recognizing its existence-is the boldest move toward peace in the Middle East since the days of the Kissinger shuttle diplomacy...