Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right response to Middle East crises [March 12] would be for President Carter to issue a White Paper declaring to the whole world, foe and friend alike, that oil is indispensable to the life of the American people, and that the U.S. will use all of its might and resources to protect the supply of oil, wherever...
...complaining about the dawdling pace of the peanut probe all along, immediately protested Bell's action, saying that he had not gone far enough to free the special counsel from possible Justice Department interference. Republican Presidential Hopeful Robert Dole called the special counsel role "a perversion of the whole concept of an impartial investigation." Said Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, who is also expected to declare for the presidency: "It is not proper for the Administration to be dragged kicking and screaming into this investigation...
...exaggerated. An N.A.M. analysis of the Commerce figures concluded that after-tax earnings, adjusted for the effect of inflation on depreciation and inventories, rose only 10.9% from the fourth quarter of '78. Meanwhile, New York City's Citibank separately calculated that real earnings from operations over the whole year rose only 2½%. Said the bank's Monthly Economic Letter: "Despite glowing earnings reports, many U.S. corporations are scrambling desperately to hold even against the inroads of inflation...
...total: $2.6 billion, which was equal to about 16% of the companies' net profits, 10% of their capital expenditures and 40% of their R. & D. budgets for the year. IBM Chairman Frank Gary, who supervised the study, reckoned that the $2.6 billion figure, extrapolated to cover the whole U.S. economy, would yield an overall cost of regulation that is "not inconsistent" with Weidenbaum's $79 billion estimate...
...potpourri-fragrant trade winds, usually blessed in some parts by 350 days a year of that still obedient sun. Maui is a microcosm of the world's landscapes and climates. Temperatures range from subarctic to subtropic; rainfall from 3 in. to 400 in. (but this whiter the whole island was drenched with a near record rainfall); the terrain from soaring peaks, impenetrable jungles and black lava promontories to viridian uplands, gossamer falls and beaches of bleached sand...