Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fahrenheit Eighty (Gasp!)" [July 9], you seem unaware that mankind survived and productivity grew by leaps at temperatures far lower than 65° F and far higher than 80° F. In pre-air-conditioning days, books and clothing survived, people did not faint by droves in the street, and some of the world's classiest restaurants struggled...
...shakeup, Carter had dropped hints about what he had in mind. At Camp David, he remarked to reporters that he was thinking of changing the "structure of my Cabinet." During his TV address on Sunday, he recalled the warning of one summit participant that some Cabinet members "don't seem loyal" and that there "wasn't enough discipline among your disciples...
...could this have happened to some of the best and brightest of the economists? The fault is probably not theirs. The main problem seems to be the unresolvable policy contradictions within the Administration and within the views of the President himself. Carter remains uncomfortable with economic issues and does not seem to trust any of his talented economic advisers. Early this year, for instance, he only half facetiously quipped that his economic advisers seem to be getting their inspiration from fantasyland...
Chavan's chances of forming a coalition government seem slim; his own base of support, a branch of the divided Congress Party, holds only 77 seats in the 542-member Lok Sabha (lower house). Since no party wants a mid-term general election, the best bet at week's end was that Charan Singh, 76, the powerful leader of the new breakaway Janata (secular) Party, would be the next in line to form a government if Chavan did not succeed. If all else fails, the country could be forced to accept a weak and interim nonpartisan "national government...
...echoes, strikes a resolutely winsome and pastoral note, and is steeped in native literature (with settings of verses by poets from Herrick and Blake to Auden). Britten composed it when he was 35, and he took such an obvious delight in the piquant vocal and instrumental textures that they seem to have bloomed freshly under...