Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bargain through Congress. But while they concentrated on a few items, other, often more crucial problems are totally neglected. Presidents traditionally shy away from very fundamental problems with entrenched interests on either side. Taking tough positions on divisive issues and proposing comprehensive reforms is more of a threat to their ruling coalition and reputation then is creating new programs or going along with incremental reform...
...creatures are so amiable. Goblins, those foot-high fiends of the forest, and house ghosts are obnoxious and troublesome. But the real threat to gnomes comes from the troll--a disgusting, hairy and unkempt Northern European dolt who gets his jollies by keeping his gnomes to the grindstones and by lighting a gnome on fire and then playing hot potato with him. Gnomes are for whom the troll yells, so to speak...
...dire straits, or nearly so. They have their backs against a wall, a wall of failure. They have nothing more to lose than their farms, and since they will lose those anyway if the cost-price squeeze continues; there is nothing preventing them from following through on their threat, and plowing under their fields. The Farmer's Creed reveals their desperation: "We the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful; have done so much for so long--with so little--we are now qualified to do anything with nothing...
...political time-bomb is ticking away north of the U.S. border. What it threatens is the unity and perhaps even the survival of Canada. The bomb comes in the form of a threat by the separatist government of Quebec to seek independence for the country's largest province. Next week, at an extraordinary three-day meeting, Canada's national and provincial leaders will gather in Ottawa to discuss means of righting the country's grave economic problems, which include a galloping 8.5% unemployment and 9.5% inflation. But underlying the talks will be a nervous awareness that Canada's 111-year...
...being attached in the press of late to the perspective challenge which Carter may face in 1980 from Jerry Brown. In view of his strong showing against Carter during the late primaries in 1976 and the massive reelection landslide which Brown is expected to achieve this fall. Brown's threat must be taken most seriously. Brown's personal austerity and his enunciation of an "era of limits" have clearly struck a chord of response with the American people. Noted political scientist Richard Reeves, in an article for the February Esquire magazine, foresees an epic battle between "Jerry Brown's celestial...