Word: high
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...High as the price may be, the nation's honor requires that we now repay the Shah's [Dec. 10] long and faithful friendship with a permanent refuge in this country. No pious hypocrisy can wash away this obligation...
Similarly, 56% said that "inflation, high prices and the economy" were the main problems the country faces, but only 10% thought Carter has done well in dealing with these concerns. Kennedy ranked twice as high as Carter in people's confidence in dealing with energy and the economy. When Iran is no longer the chief concern of the voters, Kennedy will again have an exploitable issue with which to attack Carter...
Iran and Libya urged that OPEC adopt the classic market-tightening tactic of cartels: production cutbacks of 5% to 10% that would keep prices high even if demand sags. But several members, including Venezuela, resisted on grounds that production levels are a matter of national sovereignty. Among those opposing the cutbacks was Iraq, which has invested heavily in oil development and is now pumping some 3.7 million bbl. daily, making it OPEC'S second largest producer after Saudi Arabia (9.5 million...
...severe will the slump be? TIME'S economists figure that, from this autumn's high to next year's low, the G.N.P. will decline a total of about 2.4%. That would be much less than the 5.7% plunge...
...church never honored Sheen with high office. In 1950 he became national director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, and a year later was appointed auxiliary bishop to New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman. But the Cardinal soured on the bishop as his TV and money-raising success soared. Perhaps as a result, the bishop was never to get a Cardinal's red hat. In 1957 Sheen abruptly gave up his TV shows. At age 71, he became a controversial innovator as Bishop of Rochester. Known till then as a conservative, he put a civil...