Word: won
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Princeton, but in 1975 he returned to the New York Fed as its president. In the past year Volcker voted at Federal Reserve meetings for tighter money and was consistently outvoted by his colleagues. Then he got the top job and, with the economy in dire trouble, finally won unanimous support for the measures that caused last week's furor...
...runners and other traders clad in bright red, green and purple coats. They talk excitedly about a broker's blunder: the man has made a mistake in filling out a customer's order, and it will cost him $2,500. A runner asks: "Does that mean we won't be going out to dinner tonight?" "No," answers a trader. "It just means we'll be going to McDonald...
...Belgians and the Dutch -to say that we are going to modernize our theater nuclear forces. I will not accept the risk. It would be to commit political suicide, and if people like me don't move, you can be sure that most other politicians won't move. I'm not going to budge until I have the cover of SALT...
...device for automatically and speedily recording votes in Congress and state legislatures; but because such a machine was seen as a threat to the filibuster, the legislators did not want it. Edison later took delight in recalling what he had resolved then and there: "Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success." For once, there is no reason to doubt his word...
...would a safe, spinning from cajolery to intimidation to sympathy, hoping to hit upon the right combination. In May 1977, David Frost unlocked Richard Nixon as no inquisitor ever had, eliciting candid admissions, remorse, even a glint of tears. Dismissed beforehand as a frothy talk-show host, Frost won journalistic plaudits for his painstaking preparation and expert technique. In short, he was an obvious network choice to interview Henry Kissinger on the occasion of the publication of the first volume of his memoirs...