Word: globally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prices will rise, but who would be blamed most in the struggle is unclear. What does seem clear is that Ford's personal fate is much more likely to be determined by the nitty-gritty details of the domestic economy than by the lofty atmospherics of global summitry...
...priming effort ($2 billion to be spent in Germany, $3.5 billion in France). Japanese Finance Minister Masayoshi Ohira has also promised further steps to stimulate demand. Yet as welcome as that news may be, it will mean little to the 15 million jobless in Europe, Japan and North America. Global unemployment, according to the OECD, will not begin to decline until mid-1976, and it may rise further before then...
...chetype of the 1950s college graduate. In 1956 he was chairman of the Washington's Birthday Exercises at Notre Dame, which gave General Curtis LeMay a "Patriotism Award." LeMay told Agee and his fellow classmates that"... If we maintain our faith in God, our love of freedom, and superior global air power, I think we can look to the future with confidence." Evidently Agee did. At the end of his senior year he was interviewed by a CIA recruiter on campus. He decided to join only after realizing that he did not want to be a lawyer or a businessman...
...control of some basic raw materials to capture a greater share of global wealth. One illustration of the size of the threat is the disruption of Western economies caused by the huge price increases of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, most of whose members have centrally run economies. The oil-price crisis has slowed the economic growth that is one of capitalism's main justifications for existence...
Indeed, there was no letup from the global politics that had preoccupied the conference all along. Because she felt that such political discussions deflected interest from matters uniquely concerning women, Françoise Giroud, France's Secretary of State for Women's Affairs, termed the conference a "total failure." Other women took a more positive view. Representative Bella Abzug of New York said that while the conference was perhaps "intended as a sop, we did talk about issues, and I believe deeply that we accomplished something." She was so inspired, in fact, that she and two other Congresswomen...