Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year's commission-chaired by Peter G. Peterson, 50, a former Commerce Secretary who is now board chairman of New York's Lehman Brothers tried a different approach. "Why does Congress deny these raises?" the report asked. "Because it knows the mood of Americans, who have far less confidence in public officials than before. Breaches of trust-even by relatively few-have reduced the willingness to increase compensation." Concluding that "only a commitment to serious reform will convince Americans that trust and confidence can be restored and that increases in salary are justified," the Peterson commission recommended...
...soaring inflation and unemployment that plague both nations. Yet the Peruvians' century-old bitter hatred toward their southern neighbors is real and runs deep. To this day, for example, misbehaving Peruvian children are disciplined with the threat: "You'll be given to the Chileans." The anti-Chilean mood has intensified with the approach of the centenary...
...crowd broke in the afternoon to "elect" a chief for the new movement in voting booths thrown up around the fairground, the electors were presented with only three choices--"for" Chirac, "against" Chirac, or "abstain." One spectator, questioned by a New York Times reporter about the angry but obedient mood of the Chirac boosters, said, "These people exist in all countries. I've seen them in Wallace crowds, in Strauss crowds, and in Madrid two weeks ago at the rally commemorating Franco...
...Mixed Mood...
OBSESSION. De Palma again-this time in a romantic mood. The story of a man given a chance to reclaim a love he thought irretrievably lost and to expiate a dreadful guilt-strains credulity. But the director's fluid technique and his gift for ravishing imagery-underscored by the lush music of the late Bernard Herrmann-sweep aside any tendency to disbelieve...