Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them consisting of only a few houses and stores surrounded by ripening tobacco and tassling cornfields. Goats climbed on rocky outcroppings, and vultures swooped down on dead animals. Gore stopped to talk to five people in Eagleville. Said Linda Vincion, the city recorder: "I'd like to know why you voted as you did on busing." Gore, who had voted against a constitutional amendment to ban busing, explained that while busing is not always the best way to desegregate schools, he felt that such issues should not be resolved by tampering with the Constitution. In nearby Farmington, a dozen...
...some three dozen people who engaged Gore in a lively discussion at a school in Willette. Asked a lean farmer in blue overalls: "Are we going to be able to get enough fuel this fall to harvest our crops?" A long-haired, bearded farmer, Jeff Poppen, wanted to know: "If they build this nuclear plant down here in Hartsville, are we going to be able to eat from our garden?" One oldtimer responded: "The question is, do we want to live the life-style we are used to living or do we want to go back 100 years...
...hell is Rula Lenska?" The question was first asked on the air by Detroit TV News Anchorman Don Lark, then echoed in print by Washington Post Columnist Roger Rosenblatt. She is, as many TV watchers know, a glamorous redhead who appears regularly in commercials for Alberto VO5 hair spray. She tosses her long locks, identifies herself as R-u-ula Lenz-z-zka and speaks of herself as though she were a famous actress. But, as the newscaster asked...
...overstraining of productive resources, and policies aimed at further firing consumer demand without simultaneously increasing investment and supply have become about as useful as Gerald Ford WIN buttons. Says Feldstein: "It is a much more complex world than Keynes or anyone else admits, and it is constantly changing. We know enough to move the economy out of a trough but not to control the business cycle...
...effects of specific economic policies or actions simply do not-and cannot-reflect the way the real world behaves. "What will be the magnitude of reaction to a broad tax cut?" asks Dornbusch. "Will people spend the money at once? Will they wait?" His conclusion: "We don't know...