Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mood as the shock wears off: ever greater resolve...
...slogan that his father, Chiang Kai-shek had used during the 1971 crisis when the Republic of China was expelled from the U.N. As the "other China" recovered from the shock of learning that Washington and Peking would normalize diplomatic relations this week, the island's mood was one of ever greater resolve and patriotism. Two days after Carter's announcement, Premier Y.S. Sun announced that the government was increasing the defense budget and stepping up a development program for major weapons. Since the U.S. was terminating its 1954 mutual defense treaty with Taiwan, said Sun, the republic...
...mild recession in 1979 would appear almost desirable would have seemed farfetched a year ago. That was before the experience of 1978, a watershed year in which popular, academic and political perceptions about the economy all swung far to the right. Public fury about inflation turned the citizens' mood against taxes, spending, deficits and government in general. Liberal economists, who had tirelessly insisted that federal policy should be aimed at stimulating demand and closing loopholes in the tax laws, began talking instead of the urgent need to encourage capital accumulation and private investment. Congress passed...
...fiscal 1980, and Cutter and his OMB colleagues are locked in a furious struggle with almost the entire federal bureaucracy. The goal is to pare spending requests and put together a budget that will not exceed the $30 billion deficit that Carter has pledged. Congress is in a cutting mood, but may change its mind when specific sacrosanct programs come...
...White House, to begin watching for pratfalls instead of apocalypses. Still, by the time Jimmy Carter tried to whip up a moral crusade for energy conservation, much of the country seemed to have perfected the knack of shrugging off the alarms of crisis. It was easy to read that mood as indifference, but it is more reasonable to suppose the country just needed a rest...