Word: finding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entirely his. Many members of Congress continue to regard inflation as enemy number one. Says Bob Giaimo, chairman of the House Budget Committee: "Some Democrats are talking about incentives and stimulants. I don't think they're reading the tea leaves right." Carter may also find the Federal Reserve balkier than before. Its new chairman, Paul Volcker, is a more determined inflation fighter than his predecessor, William Miller, who is now Treasury Secretary...
...Army," says Reporter Andrew Blake of the Boston Globe. Blake's interest sharpened during a year of reporting for the London Sunday Times in Northern Ireland. And after some machine guns stolen from an armory in Danvers, Mass., turned up in Ulster last year, Blake set out to find out how the I.R.A. runs guns from the U.S. Several sources steered him toward a man who might talk - Peter McMullen, 32, a Belfast-born Catholic who had first deserted from an elite British paratroop battalion to join the Provisional I.R.A., then quit the terrorists. Blake found McMullen hiding...
Refugees from Vietnamese cities like Hanoi and Haiphong find life on state farms distinctly unpleasant. "Some of them stay at home rather than go into the fields," said Yao Bosheng, an official of Yunnan province's refugee settlement office. On the Hung Ho state farm in the lush Red River valley, 523 refugees, out of a total population of 2,000, are work ing the sugarcane, rice, banana and pineapple fields. Though some refugees have been housed in brick barracks, with one family to each large room, many others live in temporary, ramshackle shelters made of bamboo and straw...
Schreiber keeps tight control over his agents in Frankfurt, New York, London, Hong Kong and Singapore, contacting his team almost instantly to find out who is buying, where and why. Such intelligence enables the bank to be extremely precise in its own actions. Says Schreiber: "Even after we submit written bids, we usually adjust them by a few cents via Telex right down to the deadline." At the U.S. Treasury auction last month, Dresdner's bid came in just high enough to win, and a Swiss competitor's offer failed by only 20? per oz. One clear moral...
...named Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and John-John Kennedy took over the Tonight show ("Heeeeeeeere's Johnny-Johnny!"). The bankrupt Ivy League colleges announced they would sell expansion franchises. Children won the right to divorce their parents and cruised "singlekids' bars" trying to find new ones; Hollywood capitalized on the trend with a smash-hit movie, Looking for Mr. and Mrs. Goodbar. Food shortages put the Fat Look in vogue, and fashion-conscious women draped themselves in Sheetrock, paper lamb-chop collars and plastic garbage bags. As the population grew older, self-conscious young people...