Word: woe
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...Australia, constitutional referendums are traditional bearers of woe: only five out of 26 have won popular support in the 72 years since federation. The latest referendum-giving Gough Whit-lam's Labor government control over prices and income, as a means of controlling inflation-was no exception. It was resoundingly defeated, with the incomes question drawing an alltime low yes vote of about...
...millet and sorghum that might have saved some lives Relief efforts are continuing, and in Ethiopia some food is belatedly getting to the impoverished northern provinces But in the refugee camps thousands of children with matchstick legs, protruding ribs and swollen stomachs continue to die of malnutrition. A new woe was added last week when swarms of locusts began eating their way through much of Chad and northern Nigeria, reducing the meager supply of food still further...
...most important clout is in helping exercise the gatekeeper function of deciding who should get through to the Boss-and woe to anyone who tries to interfere with her preserve. Among those who did early in the Nixon Administration was White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, who tried but failed to proclaim his total control over the White House staff by having her office moved farther away from Nixon...
When a French soldier stationed in Egypt discovered a slab of rock over 150 years ago, he hardly suspected that his discovery would help break the mystery of ancient hieroglyphs. Although Harvard's esoteric acronyms such as WOE and GSTFU are not impossible to comprehend, a rundown of the University's secret code, a la the Rosetta Stone, can be as useful to newcomers as a map Cambridge...
...available measures, Nixon has thoroughly botched the job he said he was elected to do: rampant inflation is driving food prices up at the fastest pace in a generation. The cost and scarcity of red meat dominate household conversation, but they are far from the only economic woe. Phase IV opened last week with a burst of price-increase announcements on many other items -steel, tires, cars. Interest rates are soaring for both giant corporations and individuals, and many would-be house buyers simply cannot get mortgage loans. Among economists, there is a growing fear that the mess will...