Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, controls seem to captivate more and more middle-class tenants. To them, rents are an easily identifiable and ever increasing part of their budgets, even though the rent component of the Consumer Price Index since 1967 increased only 71%, while the CPI as a whole went up 107%. Says George Sternlieb, director of the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University: "Such people know the evils of rent controls. But in view of their immediate concerns, many have adopted an attitude of 'I'll worry about posterity tomorrow...
Newspapers responded more slowly to changing conditions, and two of the slowest were the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. The Post had the advantage of its location in the nation's capital, but the paper could not seem to translate the wealth of its new owner, Eugene Meyer, into a voice that anyone but die-hard subscribers would hear. On the other hand, the Los Angeles Times spoke loud and clear, but it was far from the center of things, and its deafening bias against any news or newsmaker that might threaten the interests of the Chandlers...
...John Joseph Sirica, and it is a mark of his integrity that he waited so long to present Watergate from the other side of the bench. Perhaps he waited too long. After all the President's men have told their tales, there would seem to be few revelations left. Yet, in this appealing account, Sirica does set the record straight, not only about the judicial words but also about the sentences...
...White House and some elements in Congress seem to be lagging behind the rest of the country on the matter of reviving the CIA's capability. "The public mood is very supportive," says a top CIA official. "The question is how to mobilize that support." In the world as it is and not as it is sometimes fondly imagined, a major nation cannot function without a strong intelligence agency, and that is what is conspicuously missing in contemporary America. With the balance of power no longer as securely in America's favor as it once was, there...
...didn't seem like that fast," Gardiner said of setting the record. "I couldn't believe...