Word: longes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a crowd. Twelve-year-olds. 40-year-olds, cab drivers and long-haired toughs. A girl in the front row waves throughout the performance, crying, 'Mick, I love you!' Some real sex now. Jagger sits on the stage, the mike stuck between his legs, singing his new song. Midnight Rambler, a raw rhapsody to rape by an intruder...
...turmoil indicates that the Administration is beginning to face an economic credibility problem, though not of the sort that it has been talking about. Nixon men have said that they are having trouble convincing business, labor and consumers that the Government will stick to its prescribed anti-inflation policy long enough to cut the rate of price increases substantially...
...Administration has sound reason to bolster the nation's exports. In the long run, the strength of the dollar greatly depends on that effort. The U.S. trade surplus used to average $5 billion a year. This year the surplus will total less than $1 billion, mainly because imports have risen 50% over the past three years, twice as fast as exports. Much of the blame can be laid to U.S. inflation, but not all of it. Farm exports have fallen sharply, largely because Common Market countries have unloaded surplus grain, chickens and other produce abroad at subsidized prices...
...their sales with private loans at 9% or more. Many foreign competitors can borrow all they need from their governments at low rates-and save a crucial 1% or 2% in financing costs. A second measure would allow U.S. corporations to defer income taxes on export profits-so long as the money is reinvested to generate more exports-without setting up a corporation abroad, as the law now requires...
Critics have long-and unfairly-blamed the Vatican for almost every controversial move made by companies in which it has substantial holdings. For example, when Immobiliare teamed up with Conrad Hilton to build the Cavalieri Hilton Hotel on a Rome hilltop, the leftist press angrily accused the Holy See of wire pulling to arrange the zoning. When the government carved Via Olimpica across Rome to speed traffic to the 1960 Olympic Games, anticlerical pundits charged that the thoroughfare was laid out to provide huge profits for Immobiliare, which owned big tracts of property along the route. Early this year, small...