Word: followers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncertainty of what will follow the Shah becomes serious apprehension when one reads the Ayatullah's declaration that "the press will be free ... except for those articles that would be harmful to the nation" [Jan. 22]. The restrictions sound all too familiar and similar to those allegedly enforced by the oppressive regime the Ayatullah claims to lighten and improve. And who will decide what is harmful to the nation? The Ayatullah and his entourage...
...will be late spring before this year's price trend will be discernible. Thus the inflation outlook will still be cloudy when the pacesetting Teamsters contract negotiations begin in earnest in March. If the truckers breach the 7% limit, other unions can be expected to follow. If that happens, the concern about controls reflected in last week's leap in wholesale prices may spread much farther...
...Army colonel in 1968, he sent out a Christmas card: a photograph of a pile of Vietnamese corpses, with the inscription "Peace on Earth." In the Oedipal upmanship of military dynasties, Patton's father, the ivory-pistoled mystic brute of World War II, was a tough act to follow...
...Portnoy-esque family to be a "high Government official," even though to do so he may have to get a "better" wife. "Belle would be O.K. for Labor or Agriculture," someone advises Gold, "but not for Secretary of State or Defense." And Gold's aspiration is to follow in the footsteps of Henry Kissinger, even though Gold considers him "an odious shlump" and a "shallow, socialite warmonger." Says Heller innocently: "I don't think Kissinger should mind my portrayal. Everyone knows how grateful he is for criticism...
...least one stockholder has already filed suits against the McGraw-Hill management and others are expected to follow, claiming that they were financially damaged by the turndown of the $40 bid. Said Abraham Pomerantz, a New York lawyer who makes a specialty of class action suits: "There are squeals all over America from frustrated shareholders of McGraw-Hill. My telephone has been ringing all morning with calls from people who want to join the [lawsuit] parade...