Word: poore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...widespread perception of Vance as a gray and bland figure that most worries his colleagues and, increasingly, Vance himself. Although he is effective in head-to-head private negotiations, he is a plodding public speaker and a poor salesman for policies that sorely need selling. Since the President too lacks a flair for inspirational rhetoric or the graceful articulation of American foreign policy concepts, the Administration has not been projecting a coherent foreign policy to the world?or to Americans, either...
...apotheosis of American musical comedy? No, God no, of course not. And yet, on its own lightweight, escapist terms, Anything Goes is 100 per cent successful--from moment-to-moment as enjoyable, if ultimately nowhere near as satisfying, as any show in our musical repertoire. Makes you think. Poor Stephen Sondheim...
...this is by no means the most important area of conflict. The real conflict arises out of the churches' reassessment of their participation in national development. Since the early '70s, the churches have grown increasingly critical of patterns of development that only widen the gap between rich and poor within African countries...
...hear African leaders, along with other Third World advocates, calling for a new international economic order, which will operate in favor of the world's poorer peoples. But inside their nations the churches are hard pressed to find evidence that any new order will benefit the poorest of the poor, whose lot is worsening daily. This situation has led the churches to begin asking themselves whether their present engagement in African development is not detrimental to the point of being anti-development, i.e., anti-social justice, anti-self reliance and anti-a decent human life for all in society...
Time has not been kind to U.S. airlines. Poor financial health has robbed some of the biggest carriers of vitality in recent years, limiting their ability to replace aging, noisy, fuel-inefficient aircraft, some of them two decades old. But now passenger traffic is up, some lines are reporting profits or lower losses, and not much time is left to start replacing obsolescent airplanes-so the big carriers have begun moving on aircraft purchases that could total $80 billion by the end of the 1980s. Last week two lines signed deals for $1.3 billion, the first sizable jet buys since...