Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continue to be. Editorialized London's pro-Labor Daily Mirror on Page One: "Let the people vote. Mr. Callaghan has been left with out a weapon in his hand to fight the most important battle of our time, the battle against inflation." The Mirror demanded a general election before winter is out, but a more likely time for a vote is early spring, when the weather will be better. Said one of Callaghan's Cabinet colleagues last week: "I have circled April 5 on my calendar and I suspect that Jim has done the same...
...says he doesn't mind "the notoriety." A loquacious Cajun and father of three who is fond of fishing, he likes to be photographed in his hard hat. In fact, Weber plans to go to Washington to hear his case argued in the Supreme Court's marble temple this winter. Says he: "I wouldn't miss...
...spring it was obvious that Carter had trained his guns on the wrong enemy. The economy proved capable of growing without new stimulus. Once the mountainous winter snows had melted, real G.N.P. surged at an unsustainable annual rate of 8.7%. Unemployment fell faster than Government economists believed possible, from 7% as recently as August 1977 to a four-year low of 5.7% in June. When the Council of Economic Advisers met in late March, says one member, "the numbers just did not add up. We had underestimated the inflationary pressure by a wide margin...
...winter weather usually brings bleak news about the nation's energy supplies, and now it is beginning to seem as if mild temperatures and sunny skies do the same. That, at least, is one way to look at the hooded pumps and OUT OF GAS signs sporadically popping up at service stations around the country...
...first time since the autumn of 1973, gasoline is once again in short supply-not in the dead of winter, but a week before winter officially begins...