Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before last week's measures. Carter's political advisers were worried lest the new economic line alienate supporters on the President's left. Consumerist leaders, for example, are most unhappy about the prospect that regulation might be relaxed. The anti-inflation, save-the-dollar effort might well stir discontent among low-income voters, who may see it as pro-business (though a recession would hurt business sales and profits). Yet Vice President Walter Mondale reported to a final meeting Tuesday night that he had found deep and growing concern around the country about the dollar's plight, so that...
When Newton emerged from prison in 1970, he found the Panthers divided into rival factions. One reason was that the FBI had begun a campaign of dirty tricks-counterfeit Panther documents, fake denunciations of various Panthers as police informants-in an effort to disrupt what the agency's Washington intelligence chief called "the most violence prone of all the extremist groups...
...pointedly insisted that he went to Jerusalem and to Camp David "to establish peace for the entire area." Despite such oft-repeated assertions, both radical and moderate Arabs are concerned that Sadat has, in effect, sold out to Israel. Last week 20 Arab governments assembled in Baghdad in an effort to counteract the impending Egyptian-Israeli settlement...
...market so impenetrable, says Toshihiko Yano, formerly a top policymaker at Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, is that they have ample room to grow at home and do not "want to take the time and trouble involved in exports. They have got to make the effort." Echoes Yasuo Oki, a spokesman for Mitsubishi, Japan's largest trading house: "American businessmen come in here, throw up their hands at the differences in doing business in this country and go home muttering about the closed market...
Under way since the early 1970s, the feeding program is the centerpiece of an Israeli effort to protect endangered desert species and repopulate the land of the Bible with the animals that inhabited it during ancient times. Thus even such creatures as jackals and wolves, which are anathema to farmers, enjoy the benefits of government largesse. Says Zoologist Giora Ilany, 40: "If these animals are not saved, this country would look like the face of the moon...