Word: specter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Third World and comes across aggressively, enthusiastically and eloquently. Many people consider the man a threat to post-junta stability; of all the politicians (besides the Communists, who have little apparent power or desire to exert any radical influenced, have suffered suppression, and are newly haunted by the specter of Chile), he is least acceptable to the army and the Americans, who are still feared as potentially troublesome. As Kissinger told Greek Archibishop Iakovos, with blithe overgeneralization, "We do not wish at all to see Papandreou governing Greece because this would mean subjecting Greece to Communist power...
...grain deal was a "political" gesture and "that if we didn't cancel the sale, Congress would impose [mandatory export] controls." The grain sale was held back on the eve of the Administration's economic proposals, and Ford was clearly not eager to have the inflationary specter of a large grain export dangling before the public-and the Democrats. The Republicans and the nation are still smarting from the "great grain robbery" of 1972, when the Soviets secretly bought up some 25% of America's wheat crop plus much corn...
...slow the surge in prices, but they would also spur greater unemployment. Thus the Tories' proposals are hardly designed to change the conviction of many union members that Heath has governed on behalf of the middle classes at the expense of the working people. Heath hopes that the specter of another Labor government will bring back to the fold those Tories who either sat out the last election or voted Liberal...
...Common Market nations' leaders. If solutions do not emerge soon, Europe could be on its way either to astronomical inflation or mass business failures and double-digit unemployment. These conditions, if allowed to fester, could eventually produce massive disillusionment with Europe's seemingly powerless democratic institutions. The specter of such disillusion makes many Europeans edgy. For widespread despair would no doubt encourage the demagogues of the extreme right and left, as it did in the 1930s, to try to impose their own kind of repressive solutions...
...dampening effect on the national psyche as well as on the economy, estimates of future birth rates proved to be much too low. Later, stunned by the postwar baby boom, demographers and sociologists of the '60s warned about cities that would be literally crawling with people. Now that specter has been replaced by the beatific vision of Z.P.G. The fact is that many births that should be occurring now have merely been deferred for economic and other reasons, and that the birth rate may well rise again by the end of the decade...