Word: levering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intends not only to "name the sinners" but "find some heroes out there. Americans like heroes." Says Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell: "Strauss's responsibility is to stay on top of the private sector's compliance with the President's inflation goals. About the only lever we have is public condemnation if the goals are violated, and I think Strauss is a goddam good condemner. You really need a good pol to do this right. Mike Blumenthal could be that if he really wanted to, but I don't think he does...
Goodpaster explained: "The Warsaw Pact would have the initiative; it would choose the time, place, mode and weight of an attack. The key lever we have to dissuade it is our tactical nuclear-weapon systems based in Europe." But relying on tactical nuclear arms may be very dangerous. Using them in Europe, for instance, could quickly escalate out of control to a devastating nuclear exchange between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Warned Collins: "In the 1950s, when we had a strategic nuclear superiority, we probably could have fought a controlled tactical nuclear war. We could have said to the Soviets...
About 11 p.m. Saturday night, someone banged on a fire door and it set off the alarm accidentally, Jonathan Band '81, a Canaday resident, said. Band said the alarms usually go off when someone presses on the lever to open the door...
...budget is an engineer's document with no flashes of inspiration or insight but with a cautious and thorough probing of the national machinery, a bit of tin; kering here, a new part there, a yank on a lever or two and a squirt of the oilcan...
...football team joins the Glee Club, Collegium and other campus groups in asking Harvard to divest its shares in banks lending money to South Africa. "But money is the only lever we have," argues Harvard treasurer George Putnam...