Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needed in making policy." Every President comes to office with a lot of well-honed instincts about the people and little background in making economic policy. He must be tutored. "Most Presidents at first would really like economics to go away," says Pechman. No such luck. But no sooner is a President put in the economics classroom than he is warned not to get too involved in details lest he miss the forecast for the trees. Carter has been told he may be learning too many economic details...
...such an "endless" chain is illegal in California. Since the supply of investors is finite, someone is bound to get burned, sooner or later. By last week, police had arrested 256 pyramid builders, and the craze was showing signs of fading-onlyto rise again in a less expensive form. The player invests $100, the roster contains 16 names, and the payoff is a modest $800. Enough, perhaps, to pay your lawyer if the police join the game...
...affairs between the superpowers. Last month TIME Reporter-Researcher Barbara Dolan organized a one-day colloquy on the plight of American families. Twelve outsiders, knowledgeable on 'such problems as child abuse, domestic relations and aging, joined 22 people from TIME in a wide-ranging and stimulating discussion that, sooner and later, in ways visible and invisible, will be shared with the readers of TIME...
...sooner was that federal action filed than the district attorney asked a grand jury for an indictment against Stork and Hagen--a procedure reserved only for the most serious of crimes...
...country, it will be too late for the thousands of students who have already been forced to leave. Many voice doubt that Carter will reverse his decision in an election year, and, if he does not, Nifendereski and the many students like him may be returning to their homeland sooner than they thought...