Word: eras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...survivor. He had lived through the Stalin period, the Molotov era at the Foreign Ministry, and Khrushchev's roller coaster diplomacy. He had been Foreign Minister since...
...gold has gone up 23%, partly because its relatively low price per ounce attracts speculators. The popularity of such tangible assets reflects a fast-deepening distrust of all paper currencies in a period of scary inflation. For some extreme pessimists, the phenomenon has raised the specter of the Weimar era in Germany in the early 1920s, when wheelbarrow loads of notes were needed to buy a loaf of bread. Essentially, the price of gold is an index of anxiety and a barometer of fears that, justified or not, seem too real to many...
...years earlier, Stevens had also fled the unionizing North and the threat of a coordinated strike and headed to the non-unionized South. In 1977, though, the directors were running from angry shareholders armed with proxies. Rogers and other labor leaders believe labor had launched itself into a new era in which, as Rogers says, "the struggle would be brought from the doorstep of the oppressed to the doorstep of the oppressors...
...era of FBI dirty tricks -agents had been trying to discredit Martin Luther King Jr. by recording hotel room sounds of his alleged extramarital activities and sending the tapes to his wife. Hoover readily approved the plot against Seberg. Ordered Washington headquarters in a memo: "Jean Seberg has been a financial supporter of the B.P.P. [Black Panther Party] and should be neutralized." Headquarters had only one caveat: "It would be better to wait approximately two additional months until Seberg's pregnancy would be obvious to everyone...
...coming decades, active workers will have to increase their pension contributions. A congressional Joint Committee on Tax study has estimated that individual contributions will nearly double, from this year's $11.3 billion to $21.9 billion in 1984. Cutting back the growth of pension fund benefits in an era of double-digit inflation will be difficult but inevitable. Without some moderate increase in the burden on current workers combined with some decrease in benefits for current and future retirees, the fate of many pension programs is grimly clear. Says Richard Roeder, a pension analyst in Detroit: "For the Hamtramcks...