Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South, racist politicians tried to make capital of the busing issue by urging parents to boycott the schools. Surprisingly few did. Alabama Governor George Wallace, for instance, visited a suburb of Mobile one day last week to plead with parents to resist busing "because it is not fair to arbitrarily bus these children." Despite Wallace's speech, more than 85% of Mobile's public school children showed up for classes, carrying out a busing program developed during the summer by Harold Collins, the aggressive superintendent of Mobile's board of education, and various community groups. In Nashville...
...concerns were expressed elsewhere. The Los Angeles Times worried "whether we might be starting down the road to a permanently regimented economy," and the Detroit News was wary of "economics by decree." Though a temporary wage-price freeze may be necessary, said the New York Daily News, "we should resist all efforts to make it everlasting, with a swelling horde of bureaucrats striving to enforce it." The Chicago Tribune judged the freeze "probably inevitable," but warned it was "neither a guaranteed nor a permanent solution." The Trib regretted "that the two unions [steel and railroad] that triggered the freeze should...
Numeiry's stance underscored the deep-rooted resistance in Arab lands to Communist ideology, as distinct from Soviet aid (TIME, Aug. 9). Egypt, for example, relies almost totally on Moscow for military equipment, including some sophisticated Soviet aircraft-a handful of MIG-235 and about 20 SU-11s the hottest planes in the Russian air force. Even so, President Anwar Sadat told a closed session of his Arab Socialist Union two weeks ago that Egypt would never become Communist, would never recognize an Arab Communist government and would continue to resist Communism throughout the Arab world. A prominent Egyptian...
...other times and other places, at least one good thing could be said about inflation. It usually brought more pleasures than immediate problems. Prices rose, but paychecks and profits scooted up even faster. Few people could resist the urge to go on a buying spree to stock up on clothes, cars and all sorts of consumer goods in order to beat the next price hike. Daring entrepreneurs became instant millionaires; even penny-ante plungers built up neat nest eggs in the stock market. Inevitably, an exhilarating boom faded into sobering recession. But the letdown was usually short and sharp, followed...
...region thereof." Though the intent of Congress was clearly to make Lockheed the sole beneficiary of its action, the precedent may now exist to bail out any number of companies provided that they are important enough and sick enough. Congress may thus find it increasingly difficult to resist pressures from powerful alliances of industry, organized labor, the financial community and local political interests that would like it to come to the rescue of inefficient or mismanaged firms...