Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appointment will be praised by Congress, by participants in domestic financial markets and by the international monetary community." Added the Brookings Institution's Robert Solomon: "The President couldn't have found a better man." The stock market shot up, bond prices improved, and, despite Carter's lack of new programs to support the dollar, it temporarily recovered slightly on overseas markets, mainly on the basis of Volcker's reputation as a conservative defender of the dollar...
...when dissension comes to be regarded as intolerable. Democracies must work in a tension between unity and dissent, majority rule and minority rights. But some underlying consensus about common direction is necessary, and that is now difficult to locate. "The lack of leadership is effect and not cause," says Historian Eugene Genovese. "It would be very difficult to point out a set of values about which you could say that most Americans could agree. I think our society has become largely purposeless...
...third branch of Government, Warren Burger's Supreme Court has avoided the hobgoblin of little minds. It has developed an almost elegant lack of judicial philosophy. This year's graven edict of the majority may turn up next year as a dissent. Observes Georgetown Law Center Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "The bar and the public are left without the ability to predict what the court will do even in similar circumstances. You don't know where you stand with this court...
HOWARD ZINN, historian: One of my criticisms of history, culture and education in the U.S. is the heavy emphasis on leaders and the lack of emphasis on social movements. But if I were to pick one or two who have had some impact on our society it would be people like Dick Gregory. He could have had a comfortable career as a comedian but he has shown a willingness to sacrifice himself in his fight on racism, war, the nuclear questions...
...despite the best efforts of the Druzhba generation, it was plain last week that there will be problems in 1980. For ordinary tourists, the chief difficulties will be lack of time and flexibility. Most Americans will be on multicity package tours that include only five days in Moscow, usually not enough to follow an event from trials to finals. Tickets for sporting events, as well as for cultural activities be on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, though "barter booths" will be set up in hotel lobbies to allow spectators to swap unwanted tickets. There will be some agonizing...