Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...levy, introduced by Congress in 1963 in retaliation for a European tax on American chickens, was originally designed to hit imports of the Volkswagen Transporter, which is no longer produced. Successive administrations have let the tariff go unenforced, and this is not likely to change, despite a General Accounting Office estimate that about $600 million in truck import taxes have been lost since 1971. Reason: U.S. automakers are playing the customs game alongside the Japanese...
...chief executive. The chairman-Mr. Outside-would concentrate on anticipating the demands of society and Government. He (or she) would head a board with fewer corporate officers and more independent directors than is common today. The chief executive-Mr. Inside-would run the company. Already Mead Corp. and Connecticut General Insurance have moved in this direction...
...further it slides away, the clearer it becomes that the difference between us and the early moderns was not just one of talent. They were obsessed and inspired, as we no longer are, by the promise of the 20th century and a world made new. Because of the general faith in development, the four decades between 1890 and 1930 make up one of the supreme periods in the cultural history of the West-riven, tragic, dissonant, yet as vigorous as the Italian Renaissance: a rewriting of the contract between man and his symbols...
What changed the Administration's mind? Said Assistant Attorney General Philip Heymann: "To be frank, we can live without the powers we are giving up; states and localities can live without them also." Heymann also conceded that the Administration does "recognize the legitimacy of the argument of the press" in the wake of the Stanford Daily case...
...Pittsburgh Pirates' Dave Parker. At 27, he owns the biggest contract in baseball (around $6 million for five years) and, by the admission of his peers, the gifts to go with it. He is, put sim ply, the best all-round player in baseball. Last year major league general managers voted him the player they would most like to have. Should such judgments seem too subjective for students of statistics, Parker can satisfy them as well: two straight National League batting championships (.338 in 1977 and .334 last season), consecutive Gold Glove Awards as the best rightfielder...