Word: detail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time that offers no obvious set of answers to problems of great technical complexity. Carter, the engineer, has addressed energy, inflation, unemployment, the Middle East, the SALT II agreement and government reorganization, treating each one methodically and with an almost unheard-of degree of presidential attention to detail. He has also been willing to try bold new approaches, like the Camp David summit. Yet the more he studies, the more it becomes apparent not only that each problem is difficult, but that each is connected to other problems. Remedies for the energy question threaten to increase inflation. Remedies for inflation...
...report did, however, detail a sometimes sloppy relationship between Lance's bank and the Carter enterprise in Plains. Loans to build a new warehouse and to construct a peanut sheller at one time totaled about $1 million. On two occasions, the bank reduced the interest rates on these loans, eventually to a rate of 1½ percentage points above the prime rate. At the time of the last rate reduction on the construction loan, the prime rate, which banks charge their most credit-worthy customers, was 7%. Said Lance: "There were good and sufficient banking reasons for those decisions...
Translation: The eternal prognosticating game has just finished going berserk again. It does so at every turn of the year. The result, as the honest-to-God gleanings from the popular press above and below suggest, is that 1979 stands revealed in marvelous detail. Even before the old year has been digested, the new can thus be consumed. A few of the prophecies-who knows?-may even tell something of the future. In any event, the reveling in revelations tells a good deal about Americans...
Within days Chicagoans were fully briefed on every sickening detail of the brawny contractor's Dr.-Jekyll-and-Mr.-Hyde past. His friends and neighbors knew him as a kind, gregarious man who would bring them baskets of fruit as presents, shovel their walks unasked, throw enormous backyard parties for hundreds of friends. The papers ran blow-ups of a card identifying him as a Democratic precinct captain, accolades from fellow Jaycee club members and testimonials from friends who had benefited from Gacy's generosity...
...after the first half-hour the movie documentary detail thins out, and the film gets mired in a conventional drama of generational conflict. Sterling Hayden, as the aging king (of New York and eastern Pennsylvania), wishes to pass over his violent and ne'er-do-well son (Judd Hirsch) and grant his title to his grandson Dave (Eric Roberts). This young man is more interested in joining the American mainstream than he is in defending the traditional way of life, though he hates his father, if anything, more than his grandfather does. When his father attempts to sell Dave...