Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says one congressional leader: "They are in a mood to do something, and they don't give a damn what it is. If they thought the Lord's Prayer dealt with energy, they would probably re-enact it. If they thought it did not apply to energy, they would probably oppose...
...press secretaries: Pierre Salinger, Ron Ziegler, Ron Nessen. Powell, the Vienna (say Vye-an-uh), Ga., debater, was clearly superior. His voice and manner were more forceful, he refuted the Soviet charges with facts and a down-home touch of nastiness, zinged his adversary with some humor. The thought crossed several minds that Zamyatin, like the other Soviets, had been too long in his iron cocoon...
Indeed, the treasure seems to abound with unexpected nuggets of history. One of the graves has yielded a coin that totally baffles the archaeologists; it could be evidence of a semi-mythical Indo-Parthian kingdom thought to have existed in the area. Another of the skeletons shows strong Greek religious influence. Stuck between the teeth is a coin, symbolic payment to the boatman who ferries the dead across the River Styx to the Underworld...
...Savings banks," says Saul Klaman, president of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks, "have the worst of both worlds, high interest costs and disintermediation." Disintermediation is bankers' jargon for loss of deposits to higher yielding investments, such as Treasury bills. For a while, savings officials thought that this had been averted through the introduction in mid-1978 of six-month money-market certificates (M.M.C.s), whose payout is tied to the going Treasury-bill rate, currently 8.87% for six-month bills. But the M.M.C.s did not bring in just new money; they also attracted funds that the thrifts already...
That was bad enough, but conservatives also feared that questions about things like Adam and Eve would lead to loss of faith in biblical accounts of Jesus Christ. One author cites a 1976 survey at the seminary in Louisville in which nearly one-fourth of the students polled thought it was probably or definitely not true that Jesus walked on water or was virgin-born...