Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arms race, but to obtain increasingly significant reductions." The Soviets, however, viewed Carter's proposal for drastic cuts as one-sided, as a threat to their military security and as a violation of the established mode of U.S.-Soviet diplomacy. It was a mistake for Vance to spring a sharp revision of the weapons ceilings, which had been approved by Ford and Brezhnev at the 1974 Vladivostok summit, on Soviet leaders whose basic conservatism and advancing age (Politburo average: 67) make them unable to respond quickly to changes. Carter and Vance also gave the press details of the new proposals...
...hostile world" professes little alarm at what many view as a world grown even more hostile since Carter took office. He reckons that sharp shifts in U.S. policy must inevitably shake things up for a time. The changes are necessary, he argues, because "an old-world order is coming to an end and the shape of a new world community is yet to be defined." The old order, based largely on military power and nationalism, is giving way to "a technetronic age" in which there will be increasing emphasis on economic development and social justice. The old East-West ideological...
...businessmen had pledged about $2 million, and His Honor donated $100 of his own money. The Carter Administration put up $11.3 million in relief, and Governor Hugh Carey promised $500.000 in state aid. This will hardly dent the storekeepers' losses, which city officials estimated at $155 million (a sharp drop from their ballpark guess of $1 billion a week earlier). Merchants and property owners are also eligible for low-interest (6⅝%) Small Business Administration loans, but City Councilman Ramon Velez exclaimed: "The forms are so difficult it is unbelievable!" Nonetheless. 1,699 people got applications for loans...
...showman of the bluegrass, hawked his yearlings like a carnival huckster, giving away Tom Gentry T shirts, Tom Gentry hats and Tom Gentry Slush, a rum and lime concoction. Seth Hancock, breeder for Claiborne Farm, conducted business more sedately. His yearlings were paraded six at a time before sharp-eyed trainers searching for tiny flaws: a foot that was slightly crooked, a back with too much sway, undersized hindquarters, oversized hocks. No frills, just fine horseflesh...
...page study on analgesics just released by the FDA, a six-member advisory panel confirms that both aspirin and acetaminophen relieve minor aches and reduce fever, but it also issues a sharp warning against extravagant claims. "Adjective-itis," FDA Commissioner Donald Kennedy calls it, and urges new caveats to protect unwary consumers from potential dangers that could accompany overzealous use of analgesics. Among other things, the panel suggests...