Word: tempers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Temper. In fact Hoover spurned some orders from Presidents. He chaired a committee under Nixon in 1970, for example, that explored new tactics to investigate espionage, racial unrest, campus disorders and antiwar radicals. He was the lone dissenter when representatives of the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency urged that agents be allowed to expand surveillance to break in or otherwise "surreptitiously" enter the residences of suspects and examine personal papers or other documents. The White House approved the tactic and ordered its use, but Hoover continued to protest?and the order was finally abandoned...
SHOULD THE GRADUATE Student and Teaching Fellow Union strike scheduled to begin today come off as planned, it will be a major triumph of double-think. It will hardly be a true indicator of the political temper of Harvard's student population...
...said that the university professors are too skeptical about the effectiveness of such devices, and that "the present divination of pedagogical competence is a result of only indirect and questionable measures." But he added that teacher's reactions against changes in the format of education only reflect the temper of the times...
Losey did lose two precious weeks of rehearsal as well as his temper. Once, he ordered Delphine Seyrig off the set for interfering; on another occasion, he threw Nancy Ellen Dowd out of a script conference for the same reason. The entire project, in fact, nearly lost Losey, who would have quit had he not undertaken an extensive financial stake in the film...
Finance ministers of other nations should heed the warning -and the U.S. should temper its emerging nationalist line. It is possible to foresee the second dollar devaluation leading to a strengthening of the U.S. economy, a tearing down of barriers to trade and investment around the globe, and a newly sensible monetary system in which currency values shift frequently but moderately and with little fuss. It is equally possible to envision a world of continuing U.S. deficits, protectionist fences around national economies, and monetary chaos that would strangle the international movements of money, people and goods. Money markets move...