Word: disarrayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Government has the funds to dispense, but does not have the money to change its structure, which is the greatest obstacle in solving the problems of poverty and urban ills. A tight corporate approach will serve a Government in disarray best because it will show what can be done. Adam Smith's "invisible hand" should lead business to reform the Government in "human profit" efficiency because effective government is the best way to cure a sick society...
Full Jails. Because of the country's reeling disarray, most Ecuadorians greeted the dictatorship calmly. More than just a few regarded its tough stance with approval. Velasco shut the universities, dissolved Congress and promised a shake-up of the Supreme Court, which has sided with his opponents in the tax-collection disputes. Many Ecuadorians hoped that Velasco's attempts to tighten tax policies and end private speculation in foreign exchange might help loosen the oligarchy's stranglehold on the country's economic life. The military took advantage of the takeover to crack and shave student skulls...
...mutiny, but there is deep malaise and disarray in the Government of Richard Nixon. Sullen resentment and overt bickering compound the dreariness of Washington's labyrinthine bureaucratic corridors. Cambodia and Kent State, the slumping economy and the rhetoric of Spiro Agnew have divided the nation and split the Government. In the capital, a loss of confidence in presidential leadership plagues clerks and Cabinet members alike. And it is unfolding against a tumultuous background of challenge to Richard Nixon from the Congress of the United States...
...postponement of the next Communist Party Congress from this month to an indeterminate date late in 1970 or even 1971 suggested high-level disagreements. Said Yale's Wolfgang Leonhard: "It means either that the leaders can't agree on policies or that there's profound disarray in the Kremlin...
Short Time. There was some excitement over the town's accounts, which have been in disarray since 1967, when the selectmen did not bother to submit a financial report. "I wish to ask the town treasurer," one citizen snapped, "why there are so many discrepancies in her accounting." Mabel Smith, town clerk and treasurer, a sturdy, pugnacious widow who between meetings virtually runs Mount Vernon, crustily invited any doubters to check the receipts at the bank. One of Mrs. Smith's responsibilities is to record the town's deaths, births and marriages. These days, however, she publicly...