Word: digging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world's strongest economies simultaneously get into such a mess, and what can they do to dig themselves out? The antidotes to inflation have proved peculiarly elusive because the causes are deep and pervasive?and often unrecognized. Crop failures, bloated Arab oil prices and bumbling government strategies are only contributing causes; most likely there would have been serious, if not double-digit inflation without them. Indeed, Chiaki Nishiyama, one of Japan's leading economists, asserts that "inflation is an integral part of economic growth." Though his statement implies a hopelessness that cannot be accepted, he has a point. Inflation...
Some former students occasionally dig out their old seminar notebooks for insight into Kissinger's current policies...
...dig is under the direction of George M.A. Hanfmann '38. Hudson Professor of Archaeology...
Hanfmann said yesterday that the Sardis dig "has been called the most important archaeological excavation of this century." He said the ancient capital of Turkey was significant because it served as a link between Mediterranean and Near-Eastern cultures...
...territory, the territory being that person, whoever he is. He may be interesting, may have some gold in his life. So you find the place, the prospector does, by virtue of some divining rod or some hunch. That's how I find the person. Then he, the prospector, starts digging, digging, digging deep into the earth. I don't dig so much as just start digging operations in which the person is talking--in that sense, digging, into his life. Now finally, the prospector finds the ore--what he thinks is the ore--very rough stuff. In my case, each...