Word: containment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there was not much that the seven could agree on to contain the damage. For the moment, at least, OPEC has the industrial world over a barrel. The summiteers decided to hold imports from the oil cartel at about their present levels, in order to limit the flow of cash from their countries and, just possibly, dissuade the OPEC leaders from piling on yet more price boosts when they meet again, in December at the latest. That done?and very little it was?the seven summiteers disbanded. Carter, after a weekend visit to the U.S. military front lines in South...
...Treasury hopes for the Anthony buck are high. The coins, which are made of nickel-covered copper and contain no silver, weigh only a third as much as the Ike dollar. They are also cheaper to produce than paper dollars-3? for a coin that lasts 15 years vs. 1.8? for a bill that survives 18 months. The coin's distinctive undecagonal shape, besides being an aid to the blind, is also intended to help store clerks and bank tellers speed up transaction time and reduce errors; it should also cut down on jamming in currency-counting machines used...
...B.W.R. Training Center has all the marks of a topnotch engineering school. Cutaway reactor models line its cinder-block corridors. Classrooms contain charts, overhead projectors and closed-circuit TV systems. Instructors, identified by the hand calculators in their shirt pockets, lecture on everything from nuclear physics and chemistry to radiation safety. But students look older, more intent than most collegians...
...building, with second down and $1.4 million still to go. "Two years ago, we were literally back on our own goal line," said Ford, "and we had a long row to hoe. Now we are on the doorstep of success." The Ford library, when completed in two years, will contain 14 million documents, 700,000 ft. of film and 380,000 photographs. One of the documents: a copy of the proclamation Old 48 signed in 1974 granting presidential clemency to Whittier College No. 12, Richard Nixon...
Photographically, Manhattan is a film in which almost every shot is designed to expand its narrative meaning through pictorial composition. Many sequences contain shots of memorable visual beauty-never for their own sake, because the composition of the images is always subordinated to the pictorial event. The conversation between Allen and Diane Keaton in the planetarium is saturated with chiaroscuro density which can challenge, graphically, the famous "Aquarium Sequence" in Welles' Lady from Shanghai. The function of darkness and use of galactical phenomena which often dominate the stationary frame, add considerably to the philosophical implications of the Allen-Keaton interchange...