Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gerald Ford, presiding over a republic somewhat less ideal than Plato's, disagrees. Last week, as part of his war on inflation, he urged the creation of a "National Commission on Regulatory Reform" that could indeed act as guardian of the guardians-the deeply entrenched, highly independent federal agencies that regulate everything from the air waves to pipelines. The commission's task will be formidable: to identify and eliminate the hodgepodge of antiquated rules that in Ford's words, "increase costs to the consumer without good reason in today's economic climate...
...obviously found the multicultural gumbo of California ideal for developing a fiction in which facts, academic speculations and just plain jive freely cohabit. The overall effect in Louisiana Red is thoroughly disarming. His approach to the novel is not unlike a Dixieland band's approach to music: a native American diversity that adds up to a unified style-authentic and endlessly fresh. -R.Z. Sheppard
...this score, Betty Ford was a near-ideal patient. She was in otherwise good health and far from overweight. She had not taken any of the hypertension medications that have just been linked with increased risk of breast cancer (see MEDICINE). True, she had not detected the lump in her breast by self-examination, which might have prevented a delay of days or weeks. But when a lump was found in her routine checkup at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, she consented to immediate exploratory surgery, with the all-important proviso that if malignancy was detected, the doctors could remove...
...powerful French farm lobby-by rejecting a previously agreed upon 5% hike in Common Market farm prices. Nonetheless, there is still a good deal of hope that these relatively young, pragmatic leaders can rescue the Community from the stagflation that has followed the oil embargo and salvage the moldering ideal of European unity...
...Middle America," Time magazine said firmly. As long as Ford continued to cook his own breakfast and refused to follow his predecessor in fattening himself at the public expense, commentaries indicated, all would be right with the republic. Like Lytton Strachey's eminent Victorian, they were obsessed with the ideal of saintliness and convinced of the supreme importance of not eating too much...