Word: focals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic poisoning. Nixon's explanation still rings false. The crisis would be here even if it weren't for the fact that the Arabs had picked up a few ungentlemanly American tricks. Even Nixon's handpicked energy czar, William Simon, says that the Arab embargo is only a convenient focal point, a catalyst that has speeded things up a bit but not changed the basic picture. Or as Frank Ikard, president of the conservative American Petroleum Institute, put it: "We are going to be short of energy for our homes, our industries and our transportation this winter, next winter...
...Institute by now had become the focal point of the struggle, directing units of unarmed people to different points of the city. Construction workers started coming into the University, and close to 200 workers occupied a governmental building in Athens...
Nixon's assault began with just that tactic in 1972 when he vetoed a two-year, $155 million appropriation to CPB. Charging CPB had become "the center of power and the focal point of control for the entire public broadcasting system," Nixon proposed instead local grants totalling $45 million over one year. Executives along the public network knew that the combination of meager, shortterm funding and wide dispersion of funds was the kiss of death for quality national programming...
...Kennedy: I was ten years old when the president was killed and I am now twice that age. It is difficult to pick out turning points in one's life, but because of a chronological accident and because I once highly esteemed the man, Kennedy's death is a focal point in my understanding of my development...
...twin forces that hold Wall Street together as a social unit," he explains, "are the stock certificate, the use of which calls for geographical unity because it must be quickly and easily conveyed from seller to buyer, and the stock-exchange floor, which gives stock trading a visible focal point." Neither is necessary any more; stock trades can easily be arranged by a computer in Dallas talking to one in Los Angeles, or wherever...