Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even Nixon's economic critics would support some paring of controls. Arthur Okun, for example, proposes exempting any products that are in short supply, such as lumber and steel scrap, because controls on such items only lead to secret sales at illegally high prices. Liberal economists also go along with the Administration's argument that farm-price controls would be unworkable, even though something must be done about food prices, which rose 15% at the farm level last year. The consensus among economists is that the U.S. must overhaul its farm policies by increasing acreage allotments, reducing price...
...gravity, its indelicate openness. Hesse's role in providing American art with an exit from the minimalist impasse was crucial. Her ambition was to go in below the level of style, making art whose sensuous appeal was obliterated by its coarse, laconic materials: latex, cheesecloth, scrap metal...
Like Mailer's in recent years, Vidal's celebrity rests less on his novels than on his political and cultural journalism-to say nothing of his public feuding. There was that scrap with Robert Kennedy, the nasty split with stepsister Jacqueline Onassis. Then Vidal endured an expensive lawsuit by William F. Buckley Jr. that stemmed from a joint TV appearance in which Vidal called the conservative columnist a "crypto-Nazi...
Hicks surrounded herself in the campaign with pols left over from the old 9th, toughened battle-scarred veterans who still remember the district as John McCormack's stomping ground. After last week's defeat, these wily campaign vets may have to-scrap their playbook, and borrow a few pages from Joe Moakley...
What had driven Washington and Hanoi so close to a final agreement after so many years of stalemate? One big factor was the U.S.'s new relationships with Moscow and Peking, which no longer find it in their interests to duel with Washington over a scrap of Southeast Asian rice land. Nixon believes that his decision to resume full-scale bombing of North Viet Nam and mine its harbors was also "very, very important." It is hard to measure how badly Hanoi has been hurt by these measures. But it seems undeniable that the failure of Moscow and Peking...