Word: surest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those who believe that prison is the surest antidote to crime, the news last week was good. It gave others pause, however, when Corrections magazine reported that as 1976 began, 249,538 people were behind bars in the U.S. - the highest number of federal and state inmates in history. The total has been rising slowly since 1967, when it stood at 195,000, and last year's jump of 24,000 was the largest on record. Every state showed a rise except California, whose prison population dropped 20% because of new parole guidelines...
...perhaps the surest measure of Ford's new confidence is that he is finally learning how to exploit the fact that he is, after all, an incumbent President. Except for occasional forays into the primary states, he intends to stay in Washington and make news there, setting himself apart from all the other candidates. "He's the only one making the hard decisions," says an aide. "Nobody else is closing military bases or calling for a rise in Social Security taxes...
About the surest way to get your name in the foreign press these days, or so it seems, is to join...
...such a spectacle. The institution intentionally fosters that community sense, for these are future donors to the legendary immense Harvard fortune; such important assets must be nurtured. Fostering the sense of belonging, that feeling of having found one's niche, is the best assurance of student concern, and the surest way to make that concern appear reciprocal...
Last week the Commerce Department reported the surest sign yet that a recovery is taking hold. The economy's index of leading indicators, which had fallen for eleven straight months until March, rose in May for the third consecutive month. This was the first three-month rise since 1972 in those indicators, which usually move ahead of the overall economy and fore tell its future course. Among the sensitive leaders that were up in May were new orders for consumer goods, contracts for plant and equipment, building permits, the size of the money supply and common stock prices...