Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stress the strength of the throne, Iran lays heavy emphasis on kingly privilege. Not only do aides, including the Premier, kiss his hand, but peasants also kiss his feet as a mark of respect. When the Shah stands, everyone in his presence also stands until he sits again. Iranian public works, from the 609-ft.-tall Mohammed Reza Pahlavi dam, Iran's highest, to the Aryamehr steel complex, are named in honor of the Shah or the Shahbanou. "The outside world thinks that we want that sort of thing," said Empress Farah in an interview last week with TIME...
...Reduce some social costs, like commuting time to work, but increase others, e.g., the crime rate and the psychic stress that results , from being crowd together, especially in a poorly designed community...
...reducing the growth of energy use by such methods as enforcing national highway speed limits and standards for auto gas mileage; establishing national lighting standards and offering incentives such as lower fares and parking surcharges to get people to ride mass transit. Despite President Ford's stress on voluntary energy saving, the FEA experts argue that in order to be effective, many conservation measures would have to be mandatory...
Beryl W. Sprinkel, a monetarist and fiscal conservative who is senior vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust and Savings Bank, was the board's strongest supporter of the Administration's current economic plan. He praised Ford's avoidance of controls and stress on spending prudence. Sprinkel was echoed by Murray Weidenbaum, former Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary and now a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, who is the board's newest member. Republican Weidenbaum favored Ford's proposals to stimulate investment and eliminate regulatory laws that increase prices, yet he regarded...
...found the Italian Communist party. Gramsci is just one of dozens of the unexpected writers cited in Roll, Jordan, Roll--the others range from Hegel, Brecht, T.S. Eliot and Robert Lowell to historians of Italian slavery and traditional Japan. But Genovese devotes special attention to Gramsci, with his stress on the role played by a society's ruling ideas in ligitmizing--indeed, giving the appearance of inevitability to--its practice, not just among the ruling class but also among the ruled. If you start by understanding laws and ideas in this way, as an agency for humanizing what many people...