Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Treasury Secretary George Shultz and Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, cling to the fragile hope that consumers will simply refuse to buy costlier foods and thus slow price rises soon. Portents are not good, partly because of the sharp slowdown in beef production, which remains under freeze until Sept...
...last week, reports that people are well dressed and well fed, the shops bursting with goods of every description. In the past twelve years, the annual G.N.P. has soared from $95 to $300 per capita. Even in the poorer sections of the capital, such as the squalid shacks which cling precariously to steep hillsides, electric lights, radios and fans are common. A middle class of small entrepreneurs and professionals has emerged...
These New Conservatives--ironically they are also known as the avant garde--cling for security in their belief to the example of Dada. But the kinship claimed is true only at its most superficial. Dada was maligned in its own time only to be later recognized as a serious struggling to escape exhausted convention and revitalize the relevance of art. Now, of course, it is quite respectably ensconced in the annals of art history, its profound commitment to art and its future gratefully acknowledged. But the homage paid to Dada by the New Conservatives has ignored its crucial legacy...
...moment, chances for the full merger that Gaddafi desires do not look promising. Wrote Mohammed Hassanein Heikal, editor of Cairo's influential Al Ahram and one of the few prominent proponents of merger: "I told a very sad Gaddafi not to despair, but to cling to his paradise...
...resort campsites become ever more luxurious, lovers of the primitive still cling to what they consider genuine camping-backpacking through the woods, relying on trees, canvas and perhaps a lean-to for shelter. TIME's Boston correspondent Philip Taubman is one such purist. Last week he and his wife Felicity tromped the Long Trail in Vermont's Green Mountains, their enthusiasm only slightly dampened by a chilling rain and acres of mud. Herewith Taubman's defense of nature...