Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hostile Communist leviathans in 1969. But China's tough-talking reaction to last week's incident indicated that Peking-Moscow relations remain very chilly at best. That probably portends a warm welcome in Peking for U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was due in Peking late this week for a three-day get-acquainted visit; after all, he is the Carter Administration's leading advocate of a hard-line approach to the Soviet Union...
...four quarters of 1979, Greenspan forecasts G.N.P. growth rates ranging from 3.3% to 3.9%, and he adds, "We will get into a recession late in 1980." Chicago Banker Beryl Sprinkel reckons that a short and shallow recession will hit much earlier, lasting through the second and third quarters...
Board meetings, which under Burns started an academic quarter-hour late and dragged on like the flu, now begin promptly when Miller's digital watch shows the scheduled hour, then move quickly from issue to issue. One meeting lasted a record-short ten minutes. In 30 minutes two weeks ago, the board confronted and resolved four items of bank regulation. At another meeting, members agreed to permit transfers of money from savings to checking accounts, an issue that had been hanging around for two years. The vote was 6 to 0 - but only after Miller, a clever compromiser, crafted...
...what he believes to be good evidence that before Lincoln was shot he was "in a state of early congestive heart failure"-brought on by his aortic condition. About seven weeks before Lincoln's assassination, for example, he told his friend Joshua Speed: "My feet and hands of late seem to be always cold, and I ought perhaps to be in bed." Though he was only 56 in 1865, Abe was also easily fatigued toward the end. "There is only one word that can express my condition," he said, "and that is 'flabbiness.' " Once, shortly before...
...bunch of American sailors could figure this out after one month's visit, the MPLA's significant popular support was no big secret. But the American foreign policy establishment never knew about it until too late, until the United States had sunk millions of dollars into a vain anti-MPLA fight. The fight was in vain from the start, because, of the two alternatives to the MPLA in Angola, one (the FNLA) was an extension of Zaire's greed to acquire as much of Angola as they could, and the other (UNITA) became South Africa's pet project in Angola...