Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issues have become more complicated over the past ten years, Loeb has observed a growing reader interest in his section. "I used to be asked only, 'Which stocks do you recommend?' " he says. "Now, people grab me at lunch and ask about our stories on the oil crisis. People are genuinely interested and confused about the causes and prescriptions for solutions of such problems as inflation and the energy crunch...
...search of those causes and prescriptions, Loeb in 1969 organized TIME'S Board of Economists, a distinguished group of experts who gather in New York City four times a year. "In the past, they have been as accurate as any economic forecasting service," says Loeb, who presides over the meetings. "They also put us onto a lot of stories...
...been said, by a malicious Polish wit, that it takes five Southern Californians to unscrew a light bulb, four of whom share the experience. Thus it was on the hills above Malibu Beach, where the experience shared over the past three weeks was a construction crew's herculean effort to remove a 116-ton boulder that had perched over a row of fancy houses lining the Pacific Coast Highway...
Irate at the maltreatment of the Chinese, Peking?which had provided Hanoi with an estimated $14 billion in aid over the past two decades?abruptly cut off 21 current assistance projects. In June, as the last Chinese aid technicians went home, Hanoi yielded to longstanding Soviet blandishments and formally jumped into Moscow's economic orbit as a member of the Communist trade alliance, COMECON...
...Congress should outline rules which a convention found unacceptable, the Supreme Court's judicial review prerogative remains a final safeguard against open conflict. The states, the convention, and Congress would almost certainly accept the Court's ruling; though many of its individual past decisions have been controversial, the Court's right to judge on constitutional issues has the weight of two centuries of tradition behind...