Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Also, the White House has lately become increasingly concerned about possible sluggishness in the economy next year, and about the stiffening resistance of businessmen and some Congressmen to the tax-reform plan, even before it has officially been announced. In order both to pep up the economy and, they hope, disarm critics, Administration planners are subtly shifting the emphasis of the tax package from a program of reform to one of stimulative tax cuts, especially for business...
Last month's rift between Communists and Socialists occurred over the question of what to do about the hundreds of subsidiaries owned by the nine industrial groups that they hope to nationalize. The Socialists wanted to take over only those that are wholly owned, while the Communists had their eye on all those in which the parent company's stake was greater than 50%. Business reacted to news of the impasse with jubilation: the next day stock prices on the stagnant Paris Bourse climbed 4%. Today the index stands almost 24% above its level last...
...abandoned coercive birth control procedures, even though the country, with a population of 635 million, is growing by a million new people per month. The U.S. National Security Council has said that runaway population growth is "a threat to our national security. " Nonetheless, some analysts see cause for hope-if action is taken in time. Among them is World Bank President Robert S. McNamara, who examined the status of the Malthusian threat and what can be done about it in a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Excerpts...
Many of the names got pinned on him by his pal Bob Hope. Crosby and Hope became linked by the sequence of seven Road pictures made with Dorothy Lamour. Indeed, they were coupled ever after the very first in 1940, The Road to Singapore. Bing and Bob were frequently engaged onstage in a gibing dialogue that was itself like the soft shoe they also did together-once while singing, hands joined, Mairzy Doats. "People will think we're in love," Crosby sang to a throng of troops during World War II-and worked in the line...
...Road shows were rummage sales of stuff out of vaudeville, burlesque-marvelously shoddy masterpieces offeree and fantasy, stitched together with cliches and ad libs. The series proved, if nothing else, that Crosby was nearly as deft-and daft-a comedian as Hope. But by then Bing was a giant with or without Hope...