Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clever sell-out to Wall Street. But seldom has an event so quickly inspired so many different self-serving interpretations as the Watergate scandal. In the last year and a half, the nation has witnessed the creation of a Watergate mythology which, if it prevails, will compound the disaster by obscuring its causes and preventing their correction...
Terse Announcement. The session lasted 4½ hours, making it the longest so far. Outside, the day changed from a bright, clear November morning into a raging sandstorm, but inside the tent the negotiating continued. At one point, Yariv walked over to the Israeli tent within the U.N. compound, to telephone Jerusalem. Later, both Yariv and Gamasi meandered out of the U.N. tent and talked earnestly together for a long time, as clouds of desert sand swirled around them. Finally, the conference ended with the terse announcement that the talks would continue the next...
...Poisoned Ice. Offering a rationale for the $600 icemaker installed in a staff house at the Key Biscayne compound, one agent huffily insisted: "That icemaker was for the President-that way we knew that the President was not using poisoned...
...boycott ends in three months or so. Eckstein fixes the inflation rate somewhat higher: 7% to 7.5% for the year. Moreover, the oil shortage, by adding all kinds of new inefficiencies to tasks ranging from selling new cars to keeping assembly lines running round-the-clock, could compound a disturbing decline in worker productivity-already a major factor in sustaining heavy rates of inflation...
...Jaworski refuses to request the full files on the plumbers or ducks a test in court, his staffers are almost certain to tell the story to the media, and many of them are also expected to quit-resignations that could seriously compound the crisis of Richard Nixon...