Word: goode
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven governors. Three of them opposed the move, saying it would seriously worsen the slowdown in the economy. There are signs that the recession will be deeper and longer than was predicted only three months ago. So some economists dispute Volcker's assertion that "what basically is good for the dollar is good for the economy at home." They are fearful that in his zeal to raise interest rates to buttress the buck abroad, he will worsen the Interest rates have been rising through the industrialized world since July, as governments try to curb inflation...
...American producers, on average, get just $1.18 for their price-controlled gas. The Mexican negotiators could call their good deal "Pancho's revenge...
...more accurately be called Then! Aside from a scoop about Iraqi spying, the only effort at hard news was a watery recap of the Rhodesian peace talks. Judged the Financial Times: "Newsmagazine is precisely what the first issue is not. It is a feature magazine, and not an especially good one at that." Said Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans: "There is less of a feeling of a window on the world than TIME or ... various British Sunday papers...
...excite or inform. ABC's World News To night has got consistently sharper. Arledge demands and gets inventive technology. ABC, once el cheapo of the networks (it used to be said that ABC was the last to arrive at the scene and the first to leave), now spends good money to get good people. Arledge hired Richard Wald (once head of NBC News) to run his news operation, a job that Wald defines as "calming the process down." Salant concedes that ABC is "a good news organization now," though he still ridicules those three scattered anchormen: "Having somebody...
First the good news: Mary McCarthy has not mellowed, certainly not in the way that some Eastern intellectuals of the '30s and '40s did when they moved West to become hot-tub philosophers. McCarthy, fortunately, lives in Paris, where a sharp critical intelligence is as prized as a set of newly honed kitchen knives. Her Olympian view has also remained keen...