Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such a pact been concluded two months ago, it might well have steadied the dollar. But coming after dollars had been inundating currency markets, it was clearly too little, too late. Money traders were disappointed that the U.S. announced no plans to sell Treasury bonds to foreign central banks and take loans from private foreign banks to build its reserves of foreign currency, as had been rumored. Said one leading German banker of the $740 million to be raised by selling SDKs: "That much can be spent in two hours over the telephone." Moreover, Solomon again emphasized that...
...when he balances out society's assets and debits, Tom Murphy calculates that the nation is on the rise. "I keep looking back at the late summer and the early fall of 1974; you know, we were in a shambles. We had come through a helluva period. Viet Nam had been tearing the country apart, and there had been the oil crisis, the recession, Watergate. When I see how far we've come in getting our act back together, it gives me a lot of confidence about where we are going." Then Murphy looks at all those charts...
...issue is Harvard's revered tradition of welcoming graduating seniors into "the company of educated men and women." The late Harvard president, James Bryant Conant, in a 1945 report entitled "General Education in a Free Society," maintained that an educated graduate must complete courses in three broad categories-the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities. But with the loosening of requirements, the growth of specialized courses and the permissiveness of the 1960s, the general education idea all but disappeared. Easy courses that could be used to satisfy the requirements, such as "History 1380: European Oceanic Discovery, Trade...
...transformation. The day marked his 35th anniversary as TRB and his 80th as Richard Strout. He was toasted at breakfast by 30 capital colleagues, before lunch by his friends at the New Republic and after lunch at the Monitor, where Reader Jimmy Carter telephoned his congratulations. Strout got a late start on his column, but one would never know; as usual, TRB this week is a sprawling symphony of erudition, indignation, historical allusion and harmonic prose. His overture to a diatribe against the two-thirds Senate majority requirement for treaty approval: ''I don't know whether...
...hand at wooing audiences, and now Carey Peck, 28, is hoping to do the same with voters. Gregory's son was a political activist in the late '60s at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., campaigned for Carter and held down a job in the capital as legal counsel for a U.S. Senate subcommittee on education. But come November, Peck's good boy hopes to win a seat in Congress from his home state of California. When he needs counsel, the aspiring politician huddles with a formidable pair of campaign cochairmen: Father Gregory and former California Governor...