Word: fails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shaken by food-price riots in January 1977, the Saudis and their oil-rich friends in the gulf put together a $4 billion aid package to keep Sadat afloat. Fahd was unhappy about not being adequately consulted by Sadat on his peace initiative and was fearful that it might fail; nonetheless, the Saudis announced that their financial aid to Egypt would continue...
...large, Republican board members-Greenspan, Sprinkel and Washington University's Murray Weidenbaum -figure that unless the Government can reduce the growth of spending and the budget deficit, Carter's latest anti-inflation campaign, aimed at jawboning down prices and wages, will fail. Indeed, Weidenbaum argues that the Administration's drive is making businessmen fearful of sterner price guidelines ahead. So they are motivated to raise now "rather than be caught with their prices down...
...South Viet Nam. If we fail it will be because the American way simply isn't as effective as the Communist way in supporting countries abroad. I have an uneasy feeling that this may be the case. We give them the most modern arms, we emphasize the material to the exclusion of the spiritual and the Spartan life, and it may be that we soften them up rather than harden them up for the battle. On the other hand, the enemy emphasizes the Spartan life, not the material, emphasizes sacrifice and, of course, with the enormous Soviet technical help...
...schedule is any indication, the ABC formula for success-sex and comedy-is about to be copied by the industry. Even if the new shows fail, the pilots that are ready to take their place are only more of the same. "We're in the jiggle stage," says Dorkin, "and all three networks will be running girlie shows next year. The sex is more implicit than actual in those shows, and the titles are usually more titillating than the shows themselves. But people do watch them...
Martin said the decision bothers him because "it is indicative of a trend against affirmative action in the country. These decisions are based on legal principles and fail to look at reality...