Word: growths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communist campaign had contributed mightily to the center-right coalition's victory in the election. He quickly claimed that his party's "essential role" in the campaign had now given the Gaullists "legitimate means" to carry out their platform, which stresses law and order and faster economic growth. Not to be outdone by Giscard's promises of social change, Chirac, who plans to run for the presidency when Giscard's term expires, asserted that France needs "profound reforms, not superficial mini-reforms." He added: "The government will have to follow a bolder economic and social policy...
...when the Federal Reserve started keeping count, 53 foreign banks owned assets of $23 billion in the U.S. By last year's end, the number of overseas banks with U.S. operations had more than doubled and their assets more than tripled, to $76 billion, a rate of growth far in excess of the U.S. banking industry. In New York and California, the nation's major money centers, commercial and industrial loans by foreign banks are now about a third as great as those by large local banks. Most foreign banks dealing with the public still cluster...
...women." The late Harvard president, James Bryant Conant, in a 1945 report entitled "General Education in a Free Society," maintained that an educated graduate must complete courses in three broad categories-the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities. But with the loosening of requirements, the growth of specialized courses and the permissiveness of the 1960s, the general education idea all but disappeared. Easy courses that could be used to satisfy the requirements, such as "History 1380: European Oceanic Discovery, Trade and Settlement, 1680-1815" (dubbed "Boats" by irreverent students), mushroomed. Says David Riesman. Harvard professor of social sciences...
...balance and rhythm of that statement seem characteristic of Vidal at his talk-show best, it is because Teddy O is the author's mouthpiece. Throughout the novel there is a running patter about the things Vidal loves to hate: population growth, women writers who try to write like Henry Miller, hacks, agents, the so-called communications industry, and politicians. By now these subjects are part of the author's reflexology, though as a latter-day Restoration wit he can still bring them to life in cutting caricature...
...growth of new volunteer political organizations outside the party system supports this theory," Migdal said. In the past, he said, political initiative has been co-opted by a political elite...