Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chief of Police Harold Breier, 70, who holds a life appointment, called the jury's report "a terrible miscarriage of justice" and warned that it would damage morale on the force. The autocratic Breier, likened by his detractors to J. Edgar Hoover was bold enough to wade into an angry downtown demonstration last August by citizens protesting Lacy's death. Spotting the chief, the crowd chanted: "Fire Breier He's a liar...
Carter had the worst economic record since Hoover, Hibbs said, adding the a survey of voters as they left the voting booths last November showed that more Reagan supporters cited inflation and the economy than any other issue as the reason for their support...
...critics who counsel the abrupt abandonment of Reaganomics, some economists suggest a look at the alternatives. Says Walter Hoadley, former chief economist for the Bank of America and now a resident scholar at the Hoover Institution in Stanford, Calif.: "If the Administration backs away from its program under pressure, then the picture gets much worse. Inflation will take over America. Then there goes the dollar, interest rates, everything...
...Latin pun: cassis also means "helm.") There are not many books. Helms wants to take up reading mysteries?Dot tells him that intellectuals peruse them to relax ?but for now a Churchill biography lies on a coffee table. There are autographed portraits: President Reagan, Spiro Agnew, J. Edgar Hoover. Helms has collected dozens of figurines of elephants, but not as a hobby; most were foisted on him by friends. He has no hobbies. When he is in Raleigh, Helms never misses Pou Bailey's every-other-Thursday-night poker fest, a 35-year-old ritual. Steaks or jambalaya...
...part to advances in turbine technology for "low head" dams. The new turbines produce electricity by having water flow horizontally, under modest pressure, against the blades of the turbine. The machines look something like submarines sitting on the bed of the river. Traditional hydroelectric dams like the Hoover Dam on the Arizona-Nevada border must be hundreds of feet tall so that the water can fall from great height and with huge force and speed against the turbines. Although low-head dams are widely used in Europe, relatively few of those in the U.S. generate electricity...