Word: weeklong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was a message in the weeklong madness in the markets. Says Democratic Economist Walter Heller: "I think Wall Street was saying, Sure, we think you ought to fight inflation, you ought to strengthen the dollar, you ought to tighten money, but holy smokes, not necessarily to the extent of knocking the props out from under profits." Still, the chaos in the markets deflected attention from the more fundamental significance of the Federal Reserve's moves, particularly its shift toward management of the money supply through direct controls instead of manipulation of interest rates. Conservative Economist Alan Greenspan describes this...
...last week in an ego-boosting extravaganza. Basking in a tropical sun and bedecked with banners carrying anti-imperialist and anti-American slogans, Havana radiated a fiesta-like atmosphere as Presidents, Prime Ministers, dictators and Kings of 92 states flocked into the Cuban capital for the opening of the weeklong sixth summit of nonaligned nations. As host of the conference, Castro was seen and photographed with a wide variety of Third World leaders, ranging from Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, 87 - the last surviving co-founder of the nonaligned movement - to Communist fellow travelers like Viet...
...calling in years. The West German Economics Minister, Count Otto Lambsdorff, expressed "surprise and regret" at the U.S. subsidy. One of his assistants captured the prevailing sentiment: "It hurts when your friends stab you in the back." In Washington, French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet led a weeklong parade of protesting diplomats through the White House. François-Poncet got a mere 15-minute meeting with President Carter, and that reflected the crisp indifference that the Administration seemed to be showing...
...Vice President of arbitrarily creating "a new order of things, a change in the rules." Colorado Democrat Gary Hart charged that "the U.S. Senate has seen an outrageous act.'' Swiftly, the senatorial anger zeroed in on Byrd. By now, Byrd was burning too. Referring to the weeklong filibuster, despite the vote for cloture, he insisted, "I have not abused the leadership's prerogatives. I am trying to keep Senators from abusing the Senate." Byrd admitted that he had taken "extraordinary advantage of my prerogative as leader," but insisted that "one has to fight fire with fire when...
...fact, most of the congressmen said they got more out of the Institute's training program than simply a tour of Harvard and a bundle of free meals at the Faculty Club. Rep.-elect Thomas Corcoran (R-III.) yesterday praised the weeklong session as a valuable opportunity for new congressmen to "get a head start on their new jobs." And Hayakawa, speaking at another Institute of Politics reception yesterday, said the program was helpful for him in the hectic task of getting used to his "new trade...