Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should use its military power. Tahtinen advocated a kind of presence at one remove: U.S. assistance to Saudi Arabia and possibly other friendly nations to expand their own airfields and naval facilities. By doing that, he says, "you are making the Saudis feel we are not going to let them down." The implication, Tahtinen noted, would be that "we would be willing to utilize those facilities in time of crisis if invited to do so. At least that gives us a potential...
...reports indicated that mojahedeen guerrillas had assaulted the station, seizing 20 technicians and sophisticated electronic equipment used to monitor Soviet missile tests. It later turned out that local citizens, seeking to make sure that they were paid for some work they had done at the base, had refused to let the technicians leave. After hasty consultations with Washington, Bazargan's government dispatched a plane carrying $200,000 in cash to settle the debt. The technicians were brought back to Tehran on an Iranian military plane, then hustled aboard a civilian flight to Paris...
...Administration needs to act quickly to create confidence by demonstrating that it has a strong policy to develop and conserve energy. Its pledge to let gasoline prices rise somewhat to discourage consumption is welcome, but long overdue. What is more, even at $1 a gallon, gasoline in the U.S. still would be much cheaper than in almost all other industrial nations. Controls on gasoline prices do not simply need to be relaxed; they need to be eliminated altogether. Only when gasoline becomes too precious to waste will people stop wasting...
When another network has got that younger audience, you say to yourself: "Well, now, there are a lot of adults around who don't like this, and if we get all of them, we'll have a hell of an audience. So let's put in something that's completely contrary." We did that with 60 Minutes, which is on from 7 to 8 o'clock Sunday night. If there's ever an hour for children, that's it. But by God, our strategy worked! We tried the same thing with Paper Chase...
Milton Katselas' direction of Red Ryder does not serve Medoff well. As anyone who saw Katselas' Report to the Commissioner knows, he likes to let actors chew up the scenery. Gortner's portrayal of Teddy is as overblown as Michael Moriarty's star turn in Commissioner, he is such a bundle of stylized theatrical tics that Teddy's unpleasantness never becomes psychologically interesting. He is just a shrieking, obnoxious madman, an unintentional Mad magazine parody of Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon...