Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newspaper should disclose the news it has and let others worry about the consequences. It is a journalistic ethic that might seem callous and irresponsible at first, but it makes great sense, because an editor can never know what the effects of disclosure will be. So why should he trap a good story in the morass of worthless hypotheses? The Times should know this more than other papers, because it was once badly burned by sitting with great civic pompousity on a piece of hot news. In 1961, The Times learned of the upcoming Bay of Pigs invasion--"an important...
...danger is that the U.S. economy may have stumbled into a so-called liquidity trap-a situation in which economic activity is so slack that the Federal Reserve is unable to provide stimulus at will. Normally the board controls the money supply indirectly by altering the amount of reserves available to its member banks. The banks are required to count as reserves the cash in their vaults and a certain portion of their demand deposits-mainly checking accounts. They must place the portion of their deposits in non-interest-bearing accounts with the Federal Reserve. The board controls the amount...
...trap for the Secretary of State is whether he can satisfy all parties with multiple negotiations. The Sinai talks will be relatively easy, but tricky nonetheless. Egypt demands the return of the oilfields at Abu Rudeis and the strategic Mitla and Giddi passes through which Israeli armor has moved three times to fight her. Israel is not prepared to surrender Abu Rudeis until alternate fuel supplies are firmly guaranteed. The form of this guarantee-and of any firm U.S. guarantee of Israel's security-could become sticking points...
...rejection of the truce re-emphasized the basic problems of the conflict itself. Neither the British government nor the I.R.A. ever seemed prepared to concede very much. The British diplomatic moves during the truce were tempered by fear of triggering a violent Protestant backlash while being drawn into a trap by the I.R.A. The government was also counting heavily on its judgment that the Proves were mainly intent on arranging a face-saving formula that would allow them to end a losing war. Thus Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Merlyn Rees, despite repeated pleas for a "genuine and sustained...
...that people still live out in the nameless suburbs west of the Hudson, where high school and football and the prom is still important. But when the Elks member explains his reasons for excluding blacks from his club, and the banker in Poplarville, Mississippi talks about "nigras," the reactionary trap of the Liberal as guilty populist gapes wide, trying to lull us into thinking that it is somehow "openminded" to tolerate these attitudes. Lest the good writing mislead us, it is helpful to remember that this is still journalism, and these are real people...