Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflation--and found it doesn't succumb to his funnies as readily as his other, more human audiences. Since the Vietnam war inflation has gained an increasingly prominent position on the roster of the nation's problems--the Consumer Price Index indicates that prices have doubled in the past eleven years. And unless Carter with Kahn's help succeeds in slowing the ascent of prices, the President may find himself rudely deposed...
...past couple of months, Kahn has come out with some one liners, as jesters and wise men will, that probably made his boss laugh uncomfortably. After Carter had announced his wage and price guidelines, for instance, Kahn pulled an Andy Young, saying he feared the nation might be in for a "deep, deep depression," words an allegedly Democratic President would rather not hear from one of his top economic advisors. The next morning, Carter summarily dismissed the remark as "idle talk," but the inflation fighter was to be heard from again. On a T.V. news interview he captured the Administration...
...Harvard University Press recently published Dominguez's exhaustive study of Cuba in the twentieth century, "Cuba: Order and Revolution." The book is "an inquiry into how each of Cuba's three regimes in the past century tried to establish order, each one's claims to power," Dominguez said yesterday...
...Cooper, mayor of Prichard, Alabama for the past seven years, said yesterday he is "a workaholic," and will use his time as an Institute fellow to study small cities and reflect on his own career. He will spend one week a month in Prichard...
...about 20/20 hindsight. Journalists aren't expected to anticipate train wrecks or assassinations. But a simple test of their performance is: Are readers or listeners taken by surprise by events that were foreseeable? The Iran coverage meets this test favorably, in that any well-informed reader for the past year has been told all about riots, corruption, torture and discontent. The press, however, can be faulted, particularly in the earlier stages, for describing the opposition, in the simplicity of news bulletins and snippet coverage on TV, as "an unlikely coalition of left-wing extremists and conservative Muslims" who opposed...