Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resident, TIME Associate Editor Christopher Byron, is an ardent stoveowning votary. Byron, whose guide to new heat-saving gadgets accompanies Skew's story, has two wood stoves in his home. He adds: "I have fitted the house with every form of insulation and heat-saving device short of an IBM 370 to run the furnace." Among them: storm windows, weather stripping, a new DOUG BRUCE fuel-efficient oil furnace and a clock-timer thermostat that shuts off the furnace at night. "The temperature drops by only 15° with the heat off," says Byron, "and then we use electric...
Even if the Carter Administration could find ways of making sanctions against Iran stick, they would have little effect over the short run. Concludes Harald Malmgren, a respected international economist and consultant in Washington: "The U.S. near term leverage is simply less than it appears. No matter what the U.S. does economically, Iran can make this thing drag on for many more months to come...
...avoids confrontations, and he uttered only a soft-spoken complaint two weeks ago against the constitution that grants all power to Khomeini, but that was enough to inspire a threatening Khomeini mob to surround his house and kill one of his guards. So the battle began, and within a short time Khomeini's officials had been driven from Tabriz. Khomeini has been uncertain how to fight back. At first, he tried words. In a rhetorical broadside, he castigated the rebels as "mere heathens, foreign-led agents whose dossiers are in our hands." He tried to rally the Azerbaijanis...
Useful thoughts come from the nation's top kibitzer on Washington's K Street, Henry Kissinger. 1) the American President still has more discretionary power in the short run than any other man in the world, and 2) maintaining political authority through which the power is brought to bear is far more difficult over the extended course...
...those who judged that the U.S. President did not have the old-style clout. Then came the October weekend when he decided to let the Shah of Iran come to the U.S. for medical treatment. He had little notion that he was about to enter the world of short-term discretionary power...