Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home and abroad." As to the freeze, which the President imposed against the advice of his aides, he said: "The freeze is holding down production and creating shortages that threaten to get worse." In a feeble echo of his former self. Nixon concluded: "We should not despair of our plight...
...plight of the economy is largely attributable to the Nixon Administration's free-spending efforts to lift prosperity before the election last year, and its failure to restrain the boom that it had created. Even Shultz concedes that fiscal and monetary policy was much too expansive in the past. Some economists argue that those mistakes are now being corrected. For example, Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, believes the Nixon Administration's fiscal and monetary policies are now just about right, and that the chances of real recession are less...
...hard wit and has a good, coarse sense of the criminal trades. Priest (Ron O'Neal), former street hustler and cocaine pusher, is now in residence in Rome with his fine woman (Sheila Frazier), living high but a little aimlessly. What finally gets him interested is the plight of a West African nation fighting for independence against a repressive colonial regime. In return for a leather pouch full of diamonds, and the chance to do a little something constructive for a change, Priest gets the rebels a large shipment of guns. Superfly rambles. But O'Neal, irreproachably cool...
These success stories are still distinctly in the minority. The more usual plight of black "start-up" businesses is exemplified by the fate of Robert Musgrove of Chicago. Four years ago, he got an SBA loan to open the city's only photographic lab owned by a black. Today he is trapped between an inadequate cash flow and the desire to expand. He is working mostly to pay off the SBA. Beset by similar problems, as well as by undercapitalization and bad management, many other blacks simply close their doors. A recent survey in Chicago showed that...
...part of the Soviet-American trade treaty signed last October and would mean tariff cuts of 50% or more on Soviet imports into the U.S. But 77 Senators and 284 Representatives have backed legislation to deny M.F.N. to any nation that limits free emigration. Their chief concern is the plight of Soviet Jews who want to leave Russia...