Word: dente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dent...
Inflation, especially of oil prices, pushed the U.S. trade deficit in August to $1.1 billion, the worst red-ink figure for any one month ever. According to Commerce Secretary Frederick Dent, the nation imported 10% less oil in August than it did a year earlier-but paid $1.7 billion more for what it did import. Higher prices for foreign steel and paper also added significantly to the import bill, underscoring the point that American consumers are being hurt by overseas inflation as well as by the domestic variety...
...course these proposals are only short-term cures and even then only for inflation and economic slowdown. They could not begin to provide fulfilling work for more men and women, or to diminish the massive concentration of this nation's economic power in a few hands, or make a dent in the even greater disparity in wealth between the industrial nations and the rest of the world...
...likewise. Fisher does not really expect homeowners to cut their fertilizer usage, and he holds out only limited hope that a letter-writing campaign urging a similar course of action on the Government will bear much fruit. At best, the savings in fertilizer would make only a dent in the world's food problems. But it is reassuring that small acts of conscience can still take root and prosper...
Ford appears undecided on whether he will retain Secretaries Claude Brinegar of Transportation, Peter Brennan of Labor, Frederick Dent of Commerce, James Lynn of Housing and Urban Development, and foot-in-mouth Attorney General William Saxbe. If Saxbe is asked to resign, a good stroke might be for Ford to reappoint Richardson to the job thus putting the Justice Department back into the hands of a man who early insisted that Watergate be fully investigated and that those involved be prosecuted. Chances are, though, that if Richardson is brought back into the Cabinet, it will be in a less prestigious...