Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, expunging the word from the executive vocabulary won't remove the danger of Carter's Republican-like policies putting more people out of work. Having replaced "depression," which conjures up memories of the 1930s, with the more innocuous and scientific-sounding "recession," Carter is still trying to preach away the danger implied by the meaning of both words. Rejecting the "myth that we must choose endlessly between inflation and recession," Carter in his State of the Union address assured the American people that "together, we build the foundation for a strong economy with lower inflation without contriving either...
...come out with some one liners, as jesters and wise men will, that probably made his boss laugh uncomfortably. After Carter had announced his wage and price guidelines, for instance, Kahn pulled an Andy Young, saying he feared the nation might be in for a "deep, deep depression," words an allegedly Democratic President would rather not hear from one of his top economic advisors. The next morning, Carter summarily dismissed the remark as "idle talk," but the inflation fighter was to be heard from again. On a T.V. news interview he captured the Administration's it-will-all-work...
...word Navarone may appear in the title of this movie, but never once does it escape the generally stiff lips of the characters. The word's function is to remind us of the secret mission to blow up the guns in the grand old adventure saga of 1961, and to stir hopes that we are in for more of the same 18 years later. In other words, this is an implied rather than an actual sequel. In the new film the lines behind which our guys are operating are Yugoslav. The mission of Force 10 is twofold: to kill...
...story can have the crushing gravity of a collapsing star. His sentences are frequently dense with logic and his points aphoristic: "The progress of human knowledge was a gradual renunciation of the simplicity of the world." Lem's own worlds are complex, twittering word machines ingeniously wired to philosophy, probability theory, cybernetics and literary conventions, which he parodies brilliantly. Unlike most science-fiction writers, he animates his creatures with lively explanations, as in the Cartesian send-up from The Cyberiad: "Mymosh, thus booted, went flying into the nearby puddle, where his chlorides and iodides mingled with the water...
...interest. Concedes Dick Fischer, NBC'S executive vice president for news: "Early on we reported rather softly on the Shah; we thought he was our man." A telling indictment in the Columbia Review is that in an eleven-month study the authors could find no use of the word dictator to describe the Shah. Though the press did speak of torture and a repressive secret police, it usually labeled the regime as autocratic or authoritarian...