Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disappointment and frustration. As Britain and its once proud pound continued to slump, Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan began talking like a Tory; he urged the trade unions to ease off on wage demands and ordered cuts in costly social services. Italy's Communists under Enrico Berlinguer came closer to entering the government by increasing their vote from 27% to 34%, while the tired Christian Democrats held steady...
...measures, will have to be worked out in coming weeks. The real job is to put the economy on a sound upward path, which provides more jobs and protects us from inflation by producing more goods and services. This, in turn, will generate more revenues, which will bring us closer to a balanced budget." Is a balanced budget conceivable? Not in one year, says he, but "it certainly can be done within the first four years and hopefully less...
...SOVIET RELATIONS: "We should develop closer East-West relations, but our public must be told that this relationship is competitive by history's dictates and cooperative by contemporary necessities. I don't think we can use the limited leverage we have to obtain profoundly significant systemic change in the Soviet Union...
...using such instruments as the huge 200-in. optical telescope on Mount Palomar and newer radio, X-ray and gamma-ray telescopes, modern-day stargazers have pushed the frontiers of understanding even closer to the edges of the universe and into the very cores of the stars. With increasing confidence, astrophysicists are answering some of the questions that man has asked from the time he became a rational being: How far away are the stars? What makes them shine? How long have they been there, and will they exist forever...
...account of combat life on a U.S. aircraft carrier, a "heaving greasy skillet," in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1967. Those who have not been on a carrier with planes approaching may have seen such a scene in movies. Wolfe's description is better: "As the aircraft comes closer and the carrier heaves on into the waves and the plane's speed does not diminish−one experiences a neural alarm he has never in his wildest fears imagined before: This is not an airplane coming toward me, it's a brick, and it is not gliding...