Word: membered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even more striking than the Khmer indifference toward life was their seeming indifference toward death. "When a family member dies, they take little notice," said a nurse. "They see death every day. They're very tough." One young man made no move to inform camp authorities when his wife died of cerebral malaria. As her body lay beside him beneath a blanket, he stared tearlessly into space. A Khmer Rouge soldier explained that the Angka never allowed them to cry. "We were not even allowed to say we would miss the people who died...
Clark's shaky new government. In two by-elections last week, Conservative candidates were defeated, thereby shaving the Tories' working majority in the 282-member House of Commons to a razor-thin one vote. The Conservatives have narrowly turned back three recent votes of noconfidence, but it is unlikely that Clark will call a new election for a bigger mandate until after the Liberals decide on Trudeau's successor, probably next spring. The Liberals will most likely follow their pattern of alternating French with English leaders. The foremost contenders: former Finance Minister John Turner, 50, a bilingual...
Even if Tehran finally does not default on its debts, the danger is that European and Japanese banks might call in their loans to Iran. The possibility became more acute last week. That was because of an action by an eleven-member international financing syndicate headed by the Chase Manhattan Bank. The syndicate voted to declare a $500 million loan to Iran in default for failure by Tehran to pay some $4 million in interest charges. The Iranian central bank retorted that it had instructed the Chase to transfer the needed funds from an Iranian account in New York...
...first time that any federal regulator had been so controlled. By a lopsided 223 to 147 vote, the House two weeks ago recommended canceling commission plans to force undertakers to disclose their prices fully and in advance. Representative Bill Frenzel of Minnesota suggested that every FTC staff member and all five commissioners "should spend 20 years at hard labor filling in their own asinine forms." The Senate Commerce Committee voted last week to bar the agency's action to regulate television ads aimed at children, to halt an investigation of the insurance industry and to restrict the commission...
Ronald Reagan: The Republican front runner is trying to smooth the edges of his earlier right-wing stridency. His chief economic adviser: Martin Anderson, who was a member of Richard Nixon's White House staff. Like Brown, Reagan calls for a constitutional limit on unrestrained spending. He also urges an income tax cut, perhaps as much as 33%, arguing that the boost to business would quickly result in more productivity. That, in theory, would generate increased tax receipts and cut the budget deficit. Reagan advocates the indexing of income tax rates-that is, people would pay taxes...