Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kremlin last fall to ease the hard line that it had been following ever since the new President Carter began talking of human rights. The thaw was set back by Washington's sudden normalization of ties with Peking, but the Soviets apparently have recovered from that shock and now seem determined to improve relations with the U.S. The payoff expected by the Soviets is Senate ratification of SALT, an easing of restrictions on trade and a favorable climate for the 1980 Olympics in Moscow...
...Japanese incomes. That would tend to raise imports and reduce exports because Japanese wages and other costs would go up. But such a course risks higher Japanese inflation and lower profits, which the nation's business establishment opposes. Unless the corporate chiefs relent, however, they risk the greater shock of having their access to world markets sharply curtailed. The threat of selective protectionism against Japan is rising, and it worries U.S. officials. It would dangerously damage relations with the nation's staunchest ally and biggest customer in the Far East and possibly lead to an international trade...
Although Thom described only limited applications to biology and linguistics, his ideas immediately took hold of the scientific community. Led by E.C. Zeeman of Cambridge University, mathematicians everywhere began to apply the theory to discontinuities ranging from shock waves in physics to schizophrenic cycles in psychology...
West Germany's Jews have excoriated Lapide's view as outrageous. Some scholars complain that he has made highly selective use of Jewish sources, including the medieval sage Maimonides. It is "a terrible shock. He has overstepped the bounds of Jewish theology," snaps liberal German Rabbi Peter Levinson. "If I believed in Jesus' Resurrection I would be baptized tomorrow...
...dutifully read. At least that used to be the theory. It is no longer. Worrying over the declining readership of newspapers, particularly among the young, the American Society of Newspaper Editors has been polling and studying what readers-and non-readers-think of newspapers. The result comes as a shock...