Word: spate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Former U.S. Prosecutor George Higgins, author of The Friends of Eddie Coyle, thinks that "it's part of a general decline in respect for authority." The recent spate of movies, books and TV shows that portray police fallibility and worse has also damaged policemen as witnesses. "They just no longer have the image of the untarnished good guy," says Chicago Judge Richard Fitzgerald...
...good deal of slack in the economy. The Government accordingly permitted a budget deficit of $14.3 billion in fiscal 1973, and it proved too much of a stimulus for an economy that was already straining close to its limits. The result: a burst of demand-pull inflation and a spate of shortages that forced President Nixon to clamp on another wage-price freeze and institute Phase IV. Had the full-employment target been set higher, the overheated condition of the economy might have been discerned sooner...
Horror stories like that of California's drug-popping Surgeon John Nork (TIME, Dec. 10), while mercifully rare, are not rare enough. Indeed, there is a broad spectrum of incompetent and unwarranted surgery. One reason for the spate of sterilizing hysterectomies and other dubious operations may be simply that there are too many surgeons. The U.S. has twice as many in proportion to population as Great Britain-and Americans undergo twice as many operations as Britons. Yet, on the average, they die younger...
...Simpson bulldozed his way through the snow for 198 yards and crashed the 2,000-yard barrier, shattering a spate of National Football League records and powering the Buffalo Bills to a 34-14 victory over the New York Jets yesterday. Simpson carried 34 times against the helpless Jets, giving him a season total of 332 carries. Both his total yardage and total carries bettered records by Cleveland's former star fullback, Jim Brown...
...going to be engaged to tomorrow?" teased Britain's Prince Charles as a gaggle of giggling housewives greeted him at the start of a day's grouse shooting in Scotland. Obviously, like the housewives, the bachelor heir to the British throne had been reading the latest spate of speculation about his marital plans. Currently supposed to be the leading choice as his future Queen: Lady Jane Wellesley, 22, daughter of the seventh Duke of Wellington. But then, Bonnie Prince Charlie is also rumored to be fond of Rose Clifton, 21, whose father is a retired army officer. Maybe...