Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bombing Needed. Though the operation's success muted criticism, several major critical questions indeed were being asked. Some people wondered why the U.S. had not warned merchant ships to avoid the area around the Wai Islands because of the Cambodians' belligerency. Certainly U.S. intelligence was aware of the recent rash of seizures. Another issue was whether Ford had adequately pursued diplomatic approaches before ordering in the Marines. Yet the Cambodians indisputably showed no interest in settling the crisis through diplomacy...
...major trading partners, down a disastrous 24.9% from the Smithsonian Agreement level of 1971. Any sharper decline would give the nation's already soaring inflation rate of 30% an explosive new thrust. Labor Cabinet members were warring openly over economic policy and the Common Market referendum, and a rash of strikes had slashed output in the automobile, rubber, tractor, aerospace and shipbuilding industries. Hopes that the Prime Minister might take an uncharacteristically firm grip on the situation were briefly raised when he offered to go before the nation in a televised interview...
CANADA has so far weathered the economic storms better than most of the industrialized world because, as a major producer and exporter of oil, it benefited from the rapid rise in world prices. Yet now consumer demand is flagging, a rash of strikes is cutting into production and a slowdown in world trade has widened the country's balance of payments deficit from $425 million in 1973 to $1.8 billion today; some experts believe that it will hit $5 billion by year's end. Though the government still predicts a 4% gain in Canada's output...
...mining complement on board the Glomar Explorer. The engineers resented the fact that the mining technicians, rather than the captain, really ran the ship. That dispute moved quietly into the courts. The second scare came shortly before the Glomar Explorer put to sea to salvage the submarine. A rash of burglaries of Hughes' company offices scattered across the West culminated in the early morning of June 5, 1974, in a break-in of Hughes' two-story communications and storage center at 7000 Romaine Street in Los Angeles...
Bravo! A cover story that will probably cause a rash of derogatory letters from jealous housewives and the fans of Lawrence Welk, but one for which I express my admiration and thanks...