Word: digging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billion. Writing in Foreign Affairs, Exxon Economist Gerald A. Pollack predicts that by 1980 OPEC'S total annual investable surplus could reach almost $500 billion. This is more than ten times as much profit as all U.S. manufacturers earned last year or, broadly expressed another way, enough to dig 5,000 Suez Canals at the original 1869 construction cost...
Administration economists worry that the national economic debate is being put into terms that are too simplistic: "Are you fighting inflation harder than recession?" In their opinion, healthy growth cannot be resumed until the U.S. can dig out the inflationary expectations that have seeped into almost every cranny of the economy...
...conditions for only a pittance. Lewis was the Paul Bunyan of unionism, standing up to companies, courts and even Presidents with fiery bombast. When Franklin Roosevelt threatened to bring out the U.S. Army to break a U.M.W. strike in 1943, Lewis replied with classic defiance: "They can't dig coal with bayonets...
...only member to talk tough to the President was Brooklyn's Elizabeth Holtzman, a first-term liberal Democrat, who delivered a speechlet about the need to dig further into the whole affair, which had raised "very dark suspicions ... in the public's mind." Among a series of questions, she wondered if Ford would be willing to turn over to the subcommittee all the taped recordings of conversations between himself and Nixon. Ford did not answer directly, although exactly what bearing such tapes would have on the issue of the pardon was unclear. Nixon pulled the plug...
Ives borrowed some of his desire to dig a little in real life, along with some revulsion at respectability and belief in an independent ruggedness, from the New England Transcendentalists. He read them again and again, quoting them in letters and memos and then finally in a book of criticism called Essays Before a Sonata, a sort of preface to a four-movement piano sonata celebrating Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts and Thoreau in turn. Ives particularly admired Emerson for his 'radicalism'--so radical, Ives wrote, that it "plunges to all roots at once," cutting the basis from more limited, specific...