Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only research Toumanoff is involved in now is for the snaring of State Department contracts, and all those population and resources materials are feeding into grant proposals. This will be, says Toumanoff, "short-term stuff"--money to help tide the center over until an endowment can be built up with corporate and foundation support. Still, Toumanoff's future offers to State--if ultimately accepted--will mark something of a new direction for the center, involving some of its members in pragmatic research on Soviet environmental and urbanization problems...
Even if the legislators approve and all the pieces of the complex package hold together, the nation's biggest and most debt-ridden city will get merely another brief breather. The $2 billion will tide it over until December. Between then and the end of the fiscal year, next June, New York must beg or borrow yet another $3 billion or so. It can accomplish this only if it can market bonds to the nation's investors, who have lately viewed New York's paper as a pox. To regain their confidence and start putting its finances...
Saddled with the reputation as a paradise for pedants, Harvard admissions officials found for years that the problems in recruiting artists was not in contacting them, but in attracting them to come once accepted. But the tide has mysteriously turned over the past five years or so; the rate of artists accepting admission has shot up, so much so that an admissions official estimated last spring that "more athletes turned us down than artists...
...Family tune is a cynical compromise reached by the FCC and the networks to deflect mounting protests, in and out of Congress, about the rising tide of TV violence. Criticism peaked last fall when NBC aired at 8 p.m. a seamy story (Born Innocent) about a rebel teen-ager who was raped with a broom handle. With a glow of virtue, the networks "voluntarily" agreed to police themselves with their own censors and wrote into the National Association of Broadcasters' television code what amounts to a rule clearly intended to ban sex and violence from the air between...
...Comoro's new chief, Prince Said Ibrahim Jaffar, who promised to restore close ties with France within the framework of independence and give Mayotte autonomy inside a Comoro federation. The coup was bloodless, and everybody but Abdallah seemed happy with the reversal of history's usual anticolonial tide...