Word: grips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leonid Brezhnev remains enigmatic, refusing a meeting. Carter wants to look at Brezhnev, feel his grip, watch his eyes. It is Carter's view that the Soviet threat has diminished this year. Carter has been gratified, even frightened a little, by the narrative of American technological achievement and potential that has come across his desk. The Soviets cannot match us. There is not only better technical know-how in the U.S.; the inability of the Soviet system to induce uniform excellence is a drag on its effort to catch up. Carter is the first modern President to appreciate...
...Last week, when the Dow fell 8 points, the favored reason was worry over a continuing drop in the value of the dollar on foreign money markets. All these factors do indeed have some influence, as does the perception by investors that the Carter Administration does not have a grip on the complexities of directing the U.S. economy. But the basic reason for the market's malaise is that in a time of continuing, persistent inflation, stocks have proved to be anything but a hedge against rising prices...
Escape, the philosophers say, is a major theme of human existence. Man is constantly trying "to get away from it all, but somehow never makesit any farther than the Cape, the Jersey Shore or the corner bar. Life's grip is too tight; escape from the mundane constraints of reality requires creativity, daring or foolhardiness. Perhaps that is why there are escape artists...
...Ethiopians, who are also righting a rebellion in the northern province of Eritrea, receive massive military aid from the Soviet Union. Until recently, Moscow also held Somalia in the iron grip of its friendship; but then it made the mistake of trying to expand its influence in the Horn of Africa by extending aid to both Somalia and Ethiopia, even though the two were ancient enemies. The volatile Somalis were enraged at the Russians' perfidy and stepped up their support for the Ogaden rebels. Meanwhile, the Soviets have reportedly supplied Ethiopia with MiG-21s and MiG-23s, heavy artillery...
...personal welfare becomes the ability to stay ahead of the crowd. Generalized growth increases the crunch by increasing expectation. Social scarcity tightens its grip. What they get, in the growing sphere of social scarcity, depends to an increasing extent on their position in the social hierarchy. Hence, the paradox of affluence...