Word: yet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years as mayor, Daley faced strikes aplenty; yet he had a knack of finessing and postponing problems until, sooner or later, they went away. Combative Jane Byrne, however, makes the mistake of attacking labor unions and other groups rather than hunkering down with them in search of a compromise...
...aide to Daley: "He never called people in. He waited until both sides asked him to act. Then he got to work." Daley also had clout and trust. A handshake was sufficient to seal an agreement. Because she is new to the scene, Byrne's handshake is not yet enough. With the help of management personnel, she got some trains rolling, and rode on one herself. A Chicago judge then came to her rescue by issuing a permanent injunction against the strike and ordering binding arbitration of the dispute. After four days in the yards, the buses and trains...
...facts of power. Judgments of another man's resolve can figure more than aircraft carriers. Terrorist tactics can mock stockpiled nukes. From Harvard to Georgetown to the White House situation room, the scholars and strategists see emerging from the peculiarities of the Iranian situation a new and as yet unclear dimension to the world struggle. It derives partly from the fact that the U.S. has a military equal in the world. Washington can no longer fall back on an overwhelming power margin as the ultimate persuader...
...Yet OPEC's failure to agree on a single price presents the oil-importing nations with a rare chance. If they substantially reduce their consumption of crude, prices at long last could be braked. Decreasing demand for petroleum can easily stampede OPEC's members into a back-stabbing rush to hang onto their customers by offering all sorts of discounts and deals. Already there are signs that this year's 100% increase in crude oil costs is beginning to crimp cartel sales. U.S. oil imports dropped by 8.5% during November to 7.9 million bbl. daily, suggesting that...
Only a few years ago, the orthodox wisdom was that the U.S. would never suffer such hyperinflation, but that if it ever did, the whole economy would be shattered and the democratic political system would be endangered. Yet in 1979 the economy showed a remarkable resiliency and a resistance to deep recession. People learned to cope. They reduced their spending for gas-thirsty big cars and such little luxuries as hardcover books, records and tennis equipment. But they kept right on spending for other goods, particularly the high-quality and the durable, in part because they figured that almost everything...