Word: reflectivity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, cannot accurately reflect many of South Viet Nam's ad vantages, such as its experienced officers, large air force, and extensive transportation network-all legacies...
What I found is a curious assortment of images that reflect nothing in particular except what happened around me as I passed the time here, a series of motions made by my eyes as they surveyed the landscape. I found friends, stars, sports events, politics, demonstrations, disappointment and violence and love. I started by trying to be too close, using a telephoto lens and trying to fill the frame with details. As the years passed I stepped back more and more and went to wider lenses, and the images reflected an intellectual...
...elsewhere the streets are tightly packed and the sidewalks obstructed with signs and display cases. Bright commerce battles an overall mood of grey and white, the theme derived from the cool and erratically rainy sky overhead, taken up by the architecture--white panelled, glassed to reflect that sky, blocky as the crossword puzzles everyone works automatically--and completed in the hair, faces, gait, and sternness of the abundant elderly...
Moreover, if Dean's version of various talks with the President is accurate, it would take extensive doctoring of the tapes to get the recordings to reflect the conflicting White House version. Among the tapes that would seem to be especially significant for the Ervin committee are those of the following specific Nixon-Dean talks...
...difficult problems ahead. Says Economist Pierre Rinfret, a Republican and an influential adviser to Nixon: "Shultz and Stein are incompetent. They are a disaster. All they have demonstrated is the ability to lurch from one short-term solution to another." The assessment is overly harsh, but it does reflect a wide frustration inside and outside the Administration with repeated failures to bring the economy into line. Phase IV could well be the Administration's last, best chance to restore public confidence in its ability to foster prosperity without inflation...