Word: host
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mother, Rawlings seemed to be an unlikely leader for such a cleanup. But he appears to mean business. He has told friends that he was appalled by the military government's routine kickbacks and contract rigging. As a first step in reform, he ordered the arrest of a host of high-ranking officials suspected of graft, including former President Acheampong, who had leniently been exiled to his native village in lieu of being tried. Rawlings followed up the arrests with a blunt warning to civilian winners of the forthcoming elections: "Anyone of you who misuses the opportunity to serve...
...rationing of shoes touched off hoarding of clothes, and the rationing of canned meats and fish started panic buying of canned vegetables and fruit. Another lesson is that scarcity is not essential to hoarding. In 1973, reporting a Congressman's fatuous remark that supplies might grow short, TV Host Johnny Carson touched off nationwide panic buying of toilet paper...
Even after seven years of SALT negotiations, a couple of questions of protocol still remained unsettled on the eve of the Carter-Brezhnev signing ceremonies in Vienna, June 15-18. Specifically, which nation should host the first of the two state dinners? And in which embassy would the first business meetings occur...
...addition to these structural problems, a host of organizational and internal squabblings have hindered the assembly. Many of its 96 members, some of whom say they are frustrated by a year of disputes, have come to pin their hopes for an effective student voice in University policy-making on a thorough review of the system of student-Faculty committees set up by the Fainsod Committee ten years...
These accomplishments, however, were shadowed by a host of internal and organizational problems. Low attendance plagued the assembly--over the year, attendance hovered between under the 50 per cent quorum and about 70 per cent. This show of apathy fueled students' criticism of assembly members as "resume-stuffers," but Pfeffer noted that "committees are where the real work is done, and they are almost always well-attended...