Word: happening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protect those rights. "In some places," said the People's Daily, "the legal rights and interests of citizens are badly infringed. Rations are cut. Private property is tak en away, rural markets are closed down, and legal economic activities are not guaranteed. All of these things can still happen...
...strategy that had spread him far too thin and exasperated Congress. As U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young put it, "In the early days Carter felt that he could force Congress and history and everything else to work according to his flow chart. He has learned that it doesn't happen that...
...more tenable than trendy, disproving the adage that there's no fool like a Yule fool. Said Bergdorf Goodman Executive Vice President Leonard Hankin: "This was the kind of Christmas where people were investing in things because they were not so sure of what was going to happen to their dollars." Added Roger Horchow, owner of the zooming eight-year-old The Horchow Collection mail-order firm: "People are looking for good value, not whimsical merchandise. People are buying what they know will cost more later...
Predictions like that are merely provocative fantasies, I admit - whimsical futurism. It could happen, or not. I am brought to the fantasy because I have been staring at the New York Times' endorsement of Hillary Clinton for the Senate - an extraordinary 13-paragraph exercise that takes up almost all of Sunday's editorial space. I have been studying the editorial as if it were a Polaroid snapshot, the film just exposed, still wet and murky, but with certain outlines starting to come clear...
Heller excepted, members of the Board of Economists reply: 1) the soft-landing outcome is possible, but unlikely; 2) even if it does happen, so what? Real G.N.P. may not decline for two successive quarters-the technical definition of recession-but it will slow to such a crawl as to bring about a substantial rise in unemployment. Says Washington University Professor Murray Weidenbaum: "If it isn't a recession, it will still feel like...