Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Schultze figures that business spending for new plant and equipment, adjusted for inflation, must rise 7% this year and 9% next year to keep the recovery rolling. Capital investment increased 8% in 1977, but Commerce Department surveys indicate a rise of only 4.5% this year. Townsend-Greenspan, a consulting firm headed by Alan Green, span, a member of the TIME Board of Economists, calculates that the rise may really be a mere 3%, and warns that even that puny an increase will not be achieved unless the dollar steadies enough to remove the threat...
...agents. Though the general policy is not to use them, the White House asserts that it did not want specifically to single out any groups for exclusion. But agents cannot interview people in the U.S. without identifying themselves as spooks. Nor can the CIA, using a seemingly innocuous business firm as cover overseas, sign a contract with any Americans unless they know that the agency is involved...
That kind of leniency may now be changing. The NIE study, among others, calls for firm discipline and leadership by school principals. New York City announced recently that from now on teacher-assault cases will be prosecuted by the city's legal department, rather than dealt with by education officials. The Massachusetts legislature has lately stiffened penalties for assaults on teachers. Los Angeles, meanwhile, is testing an inner-city pilot program known as the "Juvenile Justice Center," in which any offense committed by a neighborhood youth will be tried by one of the center's two judges...
...base. The sunken plaza was covered over with Plexiglas, and 300 dancers, lit by spotlights from below, pound away on top. Lumet wanted to turn the Brooklyn Bridge into the Yellow Brick Road by putting down 25 miles of yellow vinyl. The New York police gave him a firm no, however, and he settled for paving a footbridge over the East River...
...Braden was a spokesman for democratic liberties in the Western Hemisphere, ever on the crusade against dictatorship. In 1940, as Ambassador to Colombia, he managed the firing of pro-Nazi pilots who endangered the Panama Canal. As fervently anti-Communist as he was anti-Nazi, Braden later took a firm cold war stance, calling for a U.S. invasion of Cuba...