Word: findings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anticipated recession deepens and election time rolls around, Volcker may find others, including Carter, carefully keeping a distance from him. Volcker seems willing to absorb the political lightning. There will be plenty of it as the economy reacts to the sweeping reforms announced by the towering and determined man who must test his resolve against the most punishing financial prospects in a decade...
...have any illusions," he told a meeting of Giscard's supporters among the members of parliament. "My successor, whoever he is, will be forced to show the same strictness." What Barre obviously meant was that since austerity will not soon give way to prosperity, Giscard will have to find some other route back to Olympus...
...John XXIII appointed a special commission to examine the matter. Its confidential, but later leaked, majority report to Paul VI in 1966 warned against avoiding childbearing for selfish reasons. Going beyond Pius XII's position, however, the report called for collaboration with "men of learning and science" to find "decent and human means" of birth control (by implication, the Pill). Morality depends on the good of the child, the couple and the family, not "the direct fecundity of each and every particular act," the report concluded. But in 1968 Paul's encyclical Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life) totally...
...Shikasta invites argument. There is something unsatisfying about a vision of history that suggests humans could not, after all, help making the messes they have, that their blunders were all ordained by a small tic in the cosmos. But belief in Lessing's theory is not required to find her novel pleasurably, even furiously engaging on every page...
...immediately warned about the man-eating Caribs on nearby islands. The conquistadors reported that the Aztecs butchered victims, ate the flesh and fed the entrails to zoo animals. Henry Morton Stanley said he was beset on all sides by savage cannibals during his famous trek through Africa to find Livingstone. Margaret Mead wrote about the man-eating Mundugumor of New Guinea. There is only one thing wrong with all these reports: they come second or third hand, and are probably false. That is the surprising thesis of a new book called The Man-Eating Myth by Anthropologist William Arens...