Word: groupness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Martin Feldstein, 40, his colleagues predict, is some day bound to reach the pinnacle of their profession: chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard, Feldstein is already perhaps the most influential young economist in the nation, the leader of a group of "new conservatives" who are arguing that the Government should meddle less in the economy. Feldstein heads the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, a private organization financed by grants from foundations and corporations, highly respected in the profession for its study of economic cycles. The cure for what...
...guerrilla leader roused irate reaction around the Arab world. Syria blamed the "Camp David Alliance" of Israel, Egypt and the U.S. for the killing. The P.L.O. command in Beirut charged that the hit team had been dispatched directly from Begin's office. Mohsen's own Saiqa group accused the Egyptian secret service and its Israeli counterpart, Mossad, of having conspired in the killing...
...their visitor as the Rev. Jesse Jackson, black Africans reached out to touch the American civil leader as he made his way among the shacks and shanties that are home to more than 1 million people in the black township of Soweto, near Johannesburg. Earlier, Jackson had addressed a group of residents at Crossroads, a famed squatter community on the outskirts of Cape Town. He was greeted there by a banner reading WELCOME HOME, NOBLE SON OF AFRICA...
Singh will head the first coalition government in India's postcolonial years. His unstable support consists of his own faction of the multiparty Janata group that supported Desai until recently, plus two rival branches of the Congress Party, one of which is headed by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. So precarious is this coalition that Reddy, in his letter asking Singh to form a government, requested that the new Prime Minister seek a vote of confidence in the lower house "at the earliest possible opportunity...
What he neglects to say is that George also made it for Gracie. Born to poor Jewish parents on New York City's Lower East Side, Burns started putting his act together when he was seven in the Peewee Quartet, a group of kids who sang for small change in neighborhood taverns. By the time he was 14 he had found his main prop-a seven-cent Ricoro cigar. "I'd go into one of those places where they would press your suit while you stood in your underwear. I'd put it on hot-I wouldn...