Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inflation will continue to oppress the nation, though prices will be rising at a somewhat lower rate at year's end than they...
...end, the Bazargan government was forced to negotiate Kraus' release with the Komiteh. To mask their own lack of control of events in Tehran, Bazargan aides blandly announced that Kraus had been held legitimately, on suspicion that he had killed some Iranians during the embassy assault. It was well established, however, that he had never even fired a shot...
...Beaver suburban world of the American '50s, the family and the child were enveloped in a cherishing mythology. Americans, it was even said, had grown obsessively kiddified; they were child-worshipers who sentimentalized their offspring in a complacent land of Little League and Disney. Toward the end of the Eisenhower years, the literary critic Leslie Fiedler wrote a lively diatribe about the "cult of the child," which he denounced as "this most maudlin of primitivisms...
...that would give veto power to one-third of Congress and seriously undermine the principle of majority rule. Yet, while all the ideas have flaws, Greenspan argues: "If the Congress does not respond to what is now in the process of occurring out in the grass roots, we will end up with a constitutional convention, and I think that would be a bad mistake...
...when PBX systems will transmit programmed information to put through a wake-up call to an employee in the morning, electronically turn on the lights and air conditioner a few minutes before he arrives at work, and lock the office door when he leaves at day's end. Electronic word-processing machines may be hooked onto the phone system, Himsworth figures, allowing an employee to punch out a letter at his desk and have it automatically transmitted to one or 1,000 receiving devices attached to phones throughout the system. IBM, the world's largest producer of electric...