Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comes also with the knowledge that he is visiting the world's most populous nation, perhaps a billion people inhabiting a land mass only slightly larger than the U.S. It is of course a Communist nation long opposed to America. It is an authoritarian society in which the late Chairman Mao Tse-tung's sayings, statue or visage (often today paired with that of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng) dominates every public place-though Mao buttons and the once ubiquitous little Red Book of Mao's quotations are seldom seen today. The people professedly live and work...
...those words, James Madison clearly expected the faction-ridden nation he helped found to go right on producing special-interest groups constantly pressing for advantage. But even the prescient co-author of the Federalist papers might be amazed at the abundant fulfillment of his vision by Americans of the late 1970s. The nation has entered a period of ascendant factionalism, a time when the larger desires of society can scarcely be heard for the insistent clamor of its numberless segments...
Unfortunately - or perhaps fortunately - none of the summary items are to be found elsewhere in the paper. But the issue is groaning with typically insightful international reporting (NOTHING OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE HAPPENING IN AFRICA OF LATE), trenchant Washington analysis (CARTER FORESTALLS EFFORTS...
...comes to the end of each quarter knowing that his company will have to report a heavy loss, possibly because it will have to pay more dollars to settle bills owed to German and Japanese suppliers in marks or yen. The treasurer sometimes will make speculative sales of dollars late in the quarter, seeking trading profits to offset part of the loss...
...Nixon. During the Watergate hearings, asked Cavett, did Ehrlichman feel he was being held to the fire by "men more honorable than yourself?" "Well," Ehrlichman replied, "I never had that suspicion about the Senate in general." As for the Watergate committee, which included Herman Talmadge, Edward Gurney, and the late Joseph Montoya, Ehrlichman said, "A lot of them have stumbled or in one way or another have been enmeshed." Added Ehrlichman, with scarcely concealed satisfaction: "It's a little bit like the people who opened King Tut's tomb...