Word: lying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extend foreign aid," and "We should encourage the redistribution of land." These are the ways the dilemma of hunger has been approached: We give grain, and governments redistribute land. Obviously, the grain and the land measures are important, but the millions continue to starve. So where does the problem lie...
Effective techniques for combatting hunger already exist. They include technological support, financial contributions, efforts to improve education, and land redistribution. These methods can work--the problem does not lie in the procedures, but in each...
...think the convention members have chosen a delicate and appropriate path between what is desirable and what is pragmatic. It is a fallacy to believe student assembles are inherently conservative, for they must--to a large extent--represent the views of the students themselves. The problem does not lie in the parliamentary institution itself, but rather in the political outlook of those the institution represents. The recent action by the students at the University of Pennsylvania--where the student government played a major role in the takeover of the administrative building and the consequent winning of significant demands--indicates that...
Certainly the coal is there. Beneath the pit heads of Appalachia and the Ohio Valley, and under the sprawling strip mines of the West, lie coal seams rich enough to meet the country's power needs for centuries, no matter how much energy consumption may grow. The physical task of digging the coal is no great problem. But the key question is whether industry can be tempted or prodded into burning the coal in the prodigious quantities that the National Energy Plan contemplates. Officially, Washington's answer is put bluntly by Secretary of Energy James Schlesinger: "We have...
...value of commodities contracts traded hit $ 1 trillion, or five times the volume of all stocks and bonds that changed hands. And the CFTC is at last getting tough. Last week it ordered a ban as of June 1 on commodity options trading-characterized by Bagley as "the worst lie-by-day, fly-by-night operation in the financial world...