Word: followers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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English and Economics concentrators in honors programs who had decided not to follow through on theses were unavailable for comment last night...
...will send its youngest, most innocent-looking member, often an eleven-or twelve-year-old, into a bank to spot a likely victim: a woman, say, who is cashing a money order or a Social Security check. When she leaves the building, only one member of the gang will follow her closely so as not to arouse her suspicions. The others trail far behind. When she gets into the elevator in her apartment house, two or three will catch up and board it with her and get off at the floor below hers. Then, as she unlocks her door, they...
...success in selling foreign governments on a go-slow approach to economic growth in order to hold down world inflation. At the economic summit in Puerto Rico last June, President Gerald Ford and the government chiefs of Britain, West Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan agreed that they would follow cautious policies aimed at a moderate annual expansion of world production, say 5%, through 1980. Today it appears that the Administration was altogether too persuasive: in most industrial countries, as in the U.S., expansion has slowed to a crawl, and the quiet optimism of the Puerto Rico meeting has given...
...batch of invitations to the nation's labor chiefs and business leaders. They will be asked to come to the White House to help the Administration devise a set of guidelines for wage and price increases that the President will then urge unions and companies to follow. Though the guideline strategy had only limited success in the 1960s, Carter is committed to another go at it to help keep inflation down while hoping to stimulate the economy to faster, more sustained growth...
Three weeks after the report was issued, the commission renewed its demands for favorable data. It sent to all the regional offices a memo titled "New Thrust Follow-Up," asking for reports on the "applicability of the commission's findings." Specifically, it directed: "Your monographs will show that desegregation has been successful at the local level for the reasons the commission reports, or that it can and will be more successful if local leadership responds as the commission recommends...