Word: toward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confusion and contradiction fundamentally rest on the President's Janus-like attitude toward the Government's role in the economy. On the one hand, he shares the public's rising distrust of Washington-dictated solutions for inflation or energy. Yet his concrete policy proposals usually involve 1960s-style programs that require big spending and larger bureaucracy. Last week's energy program would mean two new bureaucracies and $141 billion more federal spending. And as the election approaches, Carter may be tempted to reach for even more Big Government solutions to prove his effectiveness and leadership ability...
...hard on his old friend Bill to have the Fed raise interest rates. Concluding that Blumenthal was wrong, Miller balked; eventually Carter had to tell Blumenthal to ease up the pressure. Later Miller would sit calmly in his inordinately neat Fed office on Constitution Avenue, motion out the window toward the White House and say, "All's quiet on the western front...
Only a common hostility toward the white-dominated regimes of Southern Africa appeared capable of bringing agreement. The internal settlement in Zimbabwe Rhodesia was attacked by speaker after speaker. There was wide support for the Patriotic Front insurgency of Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, but none at all for Bishop Abel Muzorewa. Nonetheless, a majority of black states managed to head off proposals by Libya, Algeria and Ethiopia to recognize the Patriotic Front as a "government in exile...
...Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty provoked an open breach between the Arab states and the moderate black African countries. As President Anwar Sadat delivered an impassioned defense of the treaty as a "long, long path toward peace we have only started," six radical delegations led by Libya and Algeria ostentatiously stormed out of the waterfront conference hall. Once again, the moderates outmaneuvered the radicals: the conference attacked Israel and reaffirmed support for the Palestinians, but did not explicitly condemn Egypt...
...wind-surfers participated in a race through New York harbor. Wind-surfing championships will be held this fall in Clearwater, Fla., with competition in such categories as slalom-type racing, freestyle, long-distance (up to 15 miles) and buoy ball (a kind of water rugby). For those more inclined toward the social aspects of the sport, there are more than 100 "fleets" or clubs in the U.S. and Canada that hold informal regattas. "The sport is developing very much like skiing," says Dick Lamb, president of the International Windsurfer Class Association. "You have a highly competitive elite...