Word: bootstraps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon Administration would set as its 1971 target a $1,060 billion G.N.P., to be achieved by means of a bootstrap operation to boost public confidence (Dec. 28, 1970). TIME said that it would not work, and so far it hasn't. We also predicted that the G.N.P. would fall between $1,045 and $1,055 billion, and it looks as if it will...
...complaint. Compared with their World War II and Korean War counterparts, Viet Nam veterans are unheralded, even unwanted. On the average younger and less skilled, they are returning to look for work in one of the toughest job situations seen in their lifetime. Yet veterans' benefits, the traditional bootstrap up when all else has failed, are woefully inadequate compared with other years. The G.I. Bill for Education, for example, once provided for full tuition, plus $75 monthly for expenses. Now it pays but $175 a month, hardly enough to meet school costs in most cases, let alone support...
Radical Posture. Mostly it is a shortage of native clergy and technical help that persuades most Third World leaders to accept missionaries from Europe and North America, though some leaders attach special provisos to their invitations. Under the bootstrap socialism of Tanzania, President Julius Nyerere, a Roman Catholic, has required the missionaries to pitch in to rebuild the society. On a quiet visit to the U.S. recently, Nyerere slipped up to Maryknoll headquarters near New York City to lecture nuns on the role of missions in developing countries. One of Nyerere's suggestions, already adopted by missionaries in some...
...Constitution guarantees the right of counsel only during "criminal prosecutions," which for him do not include preliminary hearings. Implying that the court's previous decisions on the subject were shaky at best, Burger said: "I will not join in employing recent cases rather than the Constitution to bootstrap ourselves into a result. By placing a premium on 'recent cases' rather than the language of the Constitution, the court makes it dangerously simple for future courts to operate as a 'continuing constitutional convention.' " SEARCHES. Police can seldom search and seize private property without a warrant...