Word: patchworks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Power Grab. "I can understand why people up to now lack confidence," Economics Minister Vasco Vieira de Almeida told TIME Correspondent George Taber. "It is up to the government to create it." Creativity, however, is not exactly helped by the patchwork makeup of the 15-member Cabinet, which includes Socialists and Communists as well as nonpolitical technocrats, centrists and a lieutenant colonel. Last week, typically, the Cabinet set aside three days to discuss a series of sweeping economic decisions; the meeting broke up in disarray after the first day, and further discussion was postponed for a week...
Though many economists found Snedden's patchwork anti-inflation package of wage-price controls an unconvincing program, his emphasis on money matters put Whitlam on the defensive. Only midway through the campaign did Labor regain the initiative by pointing to its own inflation suppressants: a combination of tariff cuts and an upward revaluation of the Australian dollar. "It's possible to freeze meat and vegetables but not their prices," snorted the Prime Minister, knocking down the ON SERVICE idea of a wage-price freeze...
...Garage I brought a svelte, sensitive, Southern friend of mine and a few journalistic plural pronouns. We found the Appalachia shop in a small open booth near places that push Polish and Central American crafts. It was full of stuffed animals, handmade cutting boards, quilts encased in plastic, patchwork pillow kits, brightly colored hearth brooms, and a couple of striking cardboard carton displays of something called "Jack Guy Folk Toys...
...Join to expand world food production. The U.S. has belatedly lifted most growing restrictions on its farmers; the European Common Market should follow suit by scrapping or radically changing its common agricultural policy, which now subsidizes a vast patchwork of small, high-cost farms and inhibits the development of large-scale, efficient agriculture. Beyond that, major agricultural nations, led by the U.S., should join to help such places as Kenya and the basins of the Amazon and Congo rivers achieve their vast food-growing potential. The technology...
...decent emotional relationship, so confused and compulsive that he revels in the chance to assume fresh identities with every dis guise. Such subtleties, however, are drowned out in the prevailing frenzy of Sidney Lumet's direction, and by the musical score of Mikis Theodorakis, which sounds like a patchwork of his music from Z and a concert of favorite folk songs by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Band...