Word: productively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short the main appeal of this record is its blend of musical and lyrical avantgardness. The Head strive for a pop sound that is quirky enough to interest an intellectual audience, and Talking Heads: 77 is truly a modernist product to use the old sales pitch: If you liked Waiting for Godot, you'll love this album. But if you are turned off by the idea of troubled monologues, spoken by a "70s Man" surveying the new vacancy, devoid of the anger that animates a punk like Johnny Rotten, then save your bread. "Q'est-ce que c'est Talking...
Detente or no detente, the Soviet Union is a formidable antagonist that continues seeking power and influence, or at least the ability to apply pressure, all over the world. Spending a higher percentage of its gross national product on weaponry and troops than the U.S. does, Russia is striving to outstrip American military prowess in many areas. This means that a secret service capable of ferreting out Soviet intentions as well as capabilities is vital to U.S. security. Says Cord Meyer Jr., a much-decorated retired CIA official: "We need a very, very alert advance warning capability, not only...
Carter's Executive order on intelligence is intended to restore this balance and confidence. The President said that his reorganization directive was the product of the most extensive and highest-level review ever conducted. Just under a year in the making, the order expresses a rough consensus among the intelligence and defense communities, the White House and Congress...
...students were not allowing us to sell a product to those who wanted to buy it," a Harvard Pro employee who wished to remain anonymous said yesterday...
...Urban Development's first try at a departmental budget and ordered a redraft that knocked out expensive new spending programs. Moreover, Carter pledged that he would try to reduce the role of Government spending in what is now a $2 trillion economy* from about 22% of gross national product next fiscal year to 21% by the time his first term ends in 1981. That is a goal that the most crustily conservative Republican businessman could wholeheartedly endorse, if he happened to believe that the President meant...