Word: mayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consumer price index would have risen more than 20%, not 13%." Inflation is only one consequence of increasing energy costs, said Economist Murray Weidenbaum, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He believes that U.S. industry's reasonably successful drive to restrict energy consumption may be hurting productivity because companies are reducing the use of energy-gulping machines...
...deficit may well be swelled by a tax cut, if not in 1980 then in 1981. Congress has many ideas for reducing Social Security taxes; on Jan. 1, they will rise from $1,404 to $1,588 a year for anybody earning $25,900 or more. The Board of Economists expects that, in all, taxes will be cut by about $30 billion, including a reduction of some $10 billion for business, probably in the form of liberalized depreciation. Though such a move would increase the deficit at first, it would soon after pay dividends. By helping to sharpen the nation...
...troops will probably assemble at ten of the so-called guerrilla collection points, while Nkomo's men gather at the other six camps. But even if word of this complex plan can be relayed to the isolated bands of fighters spread throughout the countryside, the problem may not be over. Guerrilla commanders concede that many of their troops are young, in their teens or early 20s, undisciplined and unwilling to end the war before the government's forces have been decisively defeated. Exhorted a ZANLA manifesto found near the bodies of several whites killed in a town near...
...fundamentalists who were seeking the recognition of their leader as the Muslim Mahdi or Messiah. Saudi officials later confirmed that although some of the intruders were indeed religious zealots, the majority were politically motivated guerrillas who were trying to destabilize the country. Some Saudis believe that the armed men may have been trained in South Yemen, the Marxist state at the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Their real leader, according to Saudi officials, was an Islamic nationalist named Juhaman Otabi, who had once worked for the government but had been dismissed and flogged for drinking liquor...
...involved on the side of the monarchies' enemies. So far the Soviets have treated the unrest in the region with relative restraint. But to the east, in Afghanistan, the Soviet role has been aggressive and heavyhanded. Within the past three weeks, according to U.S. intelligence estimates, the Soviets may have tripled their military assistance to the Marxist regime of Hafizullah Amin, which is fighting to hold its own against a country-wide rebellion by Muslim tribesmen. The Soviets are now believed to have 5,000 to 10,000 military advisers in Afghanistan, many of whom are actually directing some...