Word: finding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...typical family's automotive fuel bill by $250. According to one estimate, food prices will go up by some $70 per family, since energy is used intensively throughout the food chain, from farm to supermarket. Anyone unfortunate enough to heat his home with oil is likely to find that the cost of keeping warm in the Northeast this winter will rise...
...rebels, several of whom were trained in guerrilla tactics in Cuba. Nonetheless, reports TIME Washington Correspondent William Drozdiak, "the obsessive concern with Cuban involvement struck some OAS members as blind paranoia. Panama, Mexico and Costa Rica even discerned a more sinister motive in the ill-substantiated attacks: to find an excuse for robbing the Sandinistas of their victory by sending in the Marines to set up a new pro-American government in which the guerrillas would have little say. That, of course, is how the current Nicaraguan President's father, Anastasio Somoza García, came to power...
...their desks one morning last week, they found a cryptic memo from Editor Edward Kosner summoning them to a 10:30 meeting at Top of the Week, the conference room on the 40th floor of the magazine's Manhattan headquarters. When they arrived, they were surprised to find Katharine Graham, chairman of the parent Washington Post Co. Recounted one writer: "People began to murmur, 'God, we're closing down ... We've been bought...
...companies may find that Weber will bring even more pressure on them-not just from blacks-to set up affirmative-action programs. For instance, Vilma Martinez, head of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, says that Hispanics will see the ruling as "the means to open doors that have been closed for too long." Women's groups believe Weber may help them expand their already considerable gains. Even some white ethnic groups that feel left out in the scramble for economic opportunity, such as Poles, Italians, Ukrainians and Czechs, may interpret Weber as a challenge that they...
...courts should not automatically judge bigness to be badness. That is the issue in the current major antitrust cases that the Justice Department is pursuing against IBM and AT&T. Kaufman's reasoning has yet to be tested in other cases and in higher court. Still, some lawyers find it to be a rare reassertion of what used to be a traditional antitrust rule: that the mere existence of monopoly power does not make a big company culpable under the Sherman Act. In the classic interpretation of antitrust laws, says Washington Attorney Joe Sims, a former Deputy Assistant Attorney...