Word: treaded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because they cannot read music," said Zubin Mehta confidently. "Frank Zappa, on the other hand, is one of the few rock musicians who knows my language." As conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mehta is known not only for his willingness to step in where many Angelenos fear to tread but for his ability to get away with it musically. In the peerless leader of the Mothers of Invention (TIME, Oct. 31), however, Mehta was taking on a man whose main goal in life seems to be to zap the musical establishment...
Hark, the land bids me tread no more upon...
...erratic swings of the late Martin years, when the FOMC sometimes shifted within a few months from actually shrinking the nation's money supply to expanding it at an annual rate of as much as 10%. They agree that, in Burns' words, the Federal Reserve must "tread a narrow path"-dribbling out just enough money to keep the economy from falling into recession but not so much as to start a new inflationary boom...
There are reasons for the lack of action. Effective pollution control would invoive a massive realignment of our society and would tread on the economic toes of some of the most powerful interests in the country. Liberals, unwilling to advocate revolution, are bewildered in their search for constructive alternatives to ways of life which may be ending life...
Only the boldest and bravest of Westerners will tread upon the moving sidewalks or the brimming monorail, which always looks as if it is carrying troops to the front. One group of elderly ladies piled up on the sidewalk like dominoes; 42 of them were injured, and the walk was shut down for days. Electric shuttle cars, which generally have been immobilized by the huge crowds of pedestrians, may soon be taken out of service...