Word: leape
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Despite its drawbacks, the report is still a significant leap forward from the somewhat coy "beautification" slogan espoused by the Johnson Administration. It is not without its innovative moments. It recommends, for example, that a single river basin be set aside for study of advanced concepts in water-quality management. The report also advocates a national policy to preserve existing energy resources and develop new ones over a long-term period...
Pipe and Slippers. For if it has not already happened at your house, braless converts to the Women's Liberation Movement are poised to leap right off the panels of the TV talk shows and play hell with your pipe and slippers. Sooner or later they will probably be armed with a copy of Kate Millett's Sexual Politics. Despite placards and slogans, revolutions need theoretical touchstones, dialectics to subdue the opposition. In this regard, Sexual Politics will have its uses. Without making explicit comparisons with other contemporary movements, Millett attempts to place Women...
Will President Nixon have the courage to veto the trade act that reaches his desk? His record in fighting for free trade is not impressive. On the other hand, he must realize that a great leap backward to the protectionism of the early 1930s would be disastrous. Two former chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers, Walter Heller and Raymond Saulnier, last week warned that such regression would be highly inflationary. Competition from inexpensive imports is one of the few forces that have moderated U.S. prices...
...admit-in groups of 30-West German tourists. The total cost for three weeks, including air fare, food and accommodations, is only $140. There is a slight catch, though: to help Hoxha's fledgling "Action Through Concentrated Blows" program, which is much like China's "Great Leap Forward," tourists who sign up for this government-approved package deal must spend four hours a day laboring in Albania's picturesque farm fields. Germans are ordinarily compulsive tourists, but so far there have been no takers...
...Recession? Economist Rinfret wants to be taken seriously, and he often is. Part of his record, at least, merits respect. He correctly forecast a business downturn in 1961, a superboom following the 1964 tax cuts, and a great leap in defense spending after the 1966 escalation of the Viet Nam War. He has been right for the past two years in anticipating severe inflation, tight money and record-high interest rates. Many cash-shy corporations, he warned, could not stop borrowing, no matter how costly it became. On the other hand, he failed to foresee that industrial production would decline...