Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crime swelled in some neighborhoods, our correspondents and photographers moved in to follow the battle between police and looters. Observed Correspondent Mary Cronin: "There was a carnival atmosphere. Downtown they were getting drunk and directing traffic. Uptown they were getting drunk and shopping without money." Said Reporter-Researcher Paul Witteman, who covered the bloody scene in Brooklyn: "It was a tragedy...
...still be endorsed by members of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, which originally confirmed Lance in his job. At week's end the 17-member group had not reached a decision. But from the tenor of proceedings, there is little doubt that the Senators are strongly inclined to follow Carter's lead when they reconvene this week. Even if they do, however, some observers believe that Lance will still be in trouble because of a number of questionable judgments that he has made since taking office...
...capital-intensive firms like chemical-making Bayer or Hoechst. Now a conviction is spreading that, as one leading German banker put it, "our domestic market is saturated, and our population is overaged and shrinking. It's just prudent business that if you have a market, your production should follow." With that argument, Volkswagen's boss, Toni Schmucker, persuaded German unions and political leaders that an American plant was vital if his company were to regain its traditional substantial share of the U.S. market. Volkswagen will invest $200 million in a Pennsylvania assembly plant that will begin turning...
...characters barely interact; we see them only as figures moving in a dream. We never learn why Aguirre has brought his 15-year-old daughter on his fatal voyage, or why Dona Inez insisted on accompanying her husband. We never learn why the other men in the band follow Aguirre--in the end, it is clear that their fear of him drives them, but why do they support his initial rebellion? The characters are hardly developed beyond their initial introduction. Like the futility of their search, their personalities are presented without explanation or expansion...
Occasionally, Stalinism shows a sunnier face. But that is merely tactical, says Revel, because the frown is sure to follow. Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev is "simply a button-down Stalin without the old man's dementia." He has not emptied the Gulag of its millions of prisoners nor have any of the lesser Gulags in all the other Communist nations been dismantled. In fact, when Russia relaxes its grip on nations like Rumania and Albania, their societies tend to become even harsher and more restrictive. "De-Russification," writes Revel, "does not mean democratization...