Word: jolt
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...frequently ignore their own protectionism. U.S. businessmen face enormous tangles of restrictions on trade and investment, notably in Japan (see following story). For years, U.S. trade negotiators have tried in vain to persuade their counterparts abroad to bargain seriously on these inequities. Nixon's program is designed to jolt them into much-needed negotiations. What disturbs foreign leaders is the possibility that the President might become so enthused by the domestic popularity of his program that he will push them too hard, demand too much, and retain the surtax too long...
...Durrani and Khan to speculate about what kind of event could cause the reversals and wreak the other damage at the same time. They concluded that the earth's magnetic field may be so precariously balanced (171 reversals in the past 76 million years) that even a small jolt would be enough to upset it. Such a jolt, they argue in a recent issue of Nature, could easily have been caused by a comet...
...second jet, had been practicing formation turns. Neither Sabre jet had radar, and it was only at the last second that Ichikawa's instructor told him to climb and turn. Ichikawa recalled later: "I saw a civilian plane approach from the rear and felt a jolt in my tail." The young pilot was able to bail out safely. Both he and his instructor were being held by police on possible involuntary homicide charges...
British pro-Marketers make the opposite argument -that without the stimulus or even jolt of Market membership, Britain will continue sliding downhill. As the London Times put it recently: "It used to be said that Rolls-Royce was Britain; if we stay out of Europe, Britain will be Rolls-Royce." Continental proponents of an expanded EEC make much the same argument. They reason that Britain's entry will enliven the Common Market and ultimately accelerate progress toward European unity. By contrast, British failure to gain admission would cause a period of disillusion and recrimination within the Common Market, especially...
...more concerned with subsidizing farmers than with feeding children, is chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. We Americans have woven a tight web of institutions that imprison us, limit our decision and scope. To imagine that enlightened conversation will change things is just wrong. You must administer a jolt...