Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast to the Entebbe situation, where the Israelis were being held at a relatively lightly guarded airport on the outskirts of Kampala, a city with a population of only some 350,000, the American hostages were in downtown Tehran. To get to the embassy, U.S. forces would have to fight their way through streets probably clogged deliberately by huge crowds called out by the Ayatullah Khomeini. Many Iranians would undoubtedly have weapons, including perhaps a few of their army's armored cars and even tanks. By the time the rescuers reached the embassy, there would be scant hope...
...begins the final fight...
...step down as Premier and party leader, and his call was soon echoed by Fukuda, whom Ohira had ousted as Premier last December. But the Bull refused to quit, thus triggering a fierce party struggle. At first, says one L.D.P. Diet member, "we thought that it was like any fight between father and mother. It would get serious, but in the end there would be no divorce." Yet as the days went by, all attempts at compromise proved fruitless...
...misguided effort to put it out." He argues that high interest itself is a cause of inflation because it increases the cost of buying a new home or constructing a new plant. Builders Union President Robert Georgine warned that President Carter's pledge to his workers to "not fight inflation with your jobs" would be recalled, perhaps vengefully, by blue-collar voters in next year's primaries. Carter's chief economic adviser Charles Schültze and Treasury Secretary G. William Miller began privately hinting that they had worries about the intensity of the Volcker program...
...economists no longer consider "full employment" to be a 4% rate of unemployment, but a 5.5% rate. That means, compared with the past, the U.S. is prepared to accept 1.5 million more Americans out of work before Washington policymakers start pumping up the economy in an inflationary way to fight unemployment. A higher level of joblessness is tolerable today because so many more people are at work, and thus, if one family member loses his or her job, there is a better than 50% chance that another family member is collecting a paycheck and can take up the slack. This...