Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effective, the new Parliament will have to depend on the prestige of its members and public opinion. Says Candidate Leo Tindemans, former Premier of Belgium: "Did you ever hear of any parliament that got all its powers on a plate by itself?" One plan is to organize public hearings on major issues and invite national Cabinet ministers to testify publicly. "It will be politically impossible for ministers involved in European policy to refuse to come," says Tindemans...
...spring, many officials drew the old and painful lesson that today's official line may be tomorrow's heresy. Says a U.S. Sinologist who has recently visited several provinces: "Chinese officials seem to have decided that things are still far too uncertain and that they've got to play it safe and look out for No. 1." To a growing minority of officials with an appetite for the good life, that means not only pressing foreigners for favors, but also siphoning off material goods for their own use, and sometimes even appropriating manpower to build private homes...
Kahn gamely announced that the Administration would appeal the ruling, but meanwhile the White House lacks any credible inflation policy. Said Kahn: "We've got our hands in the dike, and the problems are overflowing anyway...
Hydro. Fifty years ago, the U.S. got a third of its electricity from dams. But many were destroyed or abandoned during the era of cheap oil, and that contribution has since dropped to less than 15%. But water power is now coming back into fashion...
...foil gem thieves. The instrument, marketed by Gemprint, Ltd., of Chicago, photographs a diamond's interior; the picture is filed at the company's headquarters, where it is always available to identify the gem if it is lost or stolen. "I can't deny I got into it to supplement my income," explains Kelley, who admits that his pay as a Gemprint director and huckster is "very substantial." But, ever the cop, Kelley contends, "I want to cripple the gem theft business." And no one, after all, ever said that crime busting should...