Word: stickier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House has been in a sweat for months over a number of issues, but none stickier than a situation that can be traced to the good intentions of the President. On April 10, determined to set a fuel-saving example, Carter sent a memo to the General Services Administration, the Government's housekeeper, asking that thermostats in all federal buildings be set no lower then 80°. He ended up being too conscientious in Washington's long and sultry summer: high temperatures and humidity have frequently turned the White House into a steam bath...
...Vance." Also a lawyer, he has been the principal troubleshooter for the eastern Mediterranean region, recently concluding an agreement with Turkey by which the U.S. embargo on arms sales would be lifted in return for concessions by Turkey on Cyprus. He has also dealt with some even stickier problems: pushing the Panama Canal treaties, trying to convince Germany and Brazil that they should abandon a nuclear power plant deal and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt that he should publicly accept the neutron bomb. The busy Christopher heads an inner-agency committee charged with reconciling the Administration's human rights campaign...
...only son of a traveling salesman who died when Howard was but eight, leaving the boy in the cloying clutches of a genteel but overbearing mother. Sickly, precocious, reclusive, Howard began writing eerie fiction early, nuzzling in imagination up to decay, decomposition and other horrors softer and stickier than a mother's kisses. After a hiatus, he resumed writing in his late 20s, finding a ready market in the cheap magazines of the day-mainly Weird Tales -and becoming the center of a small cadre of writers of similar bent...
...through purely visual experience. That sense of unity was not nearly strong enough when the production opened in Leverett House last weekend. With a cast better-practiced by a week, the real problem raised by this trilogy may seem not whether Yeats can be performed well, but something much stickier: whether anyone who doesn't love Yeats can really like his plays...
...unions' demand for an excess profits tax is a far stickier matter. To A.F.L.-C.I.O. Economist Arnold Cantor, the issue is simple equity. "The income of wage earners is the wage; the income of business is profits," he says -and if one is limited the other should be too. By almost any measure, however, profits are not now excessive but depressed. U.S. corporate earnings after taxes, at an annual rate of $46 billion in this year's second quarter, were actually lower than in 1965. Many economists agree with Walter Heller that "an excess profits...