Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will increase the cost of Eurodollars, which have been one of the major sources of funds flowing into the United States," pumping up credit availability and increasing inflation. "But the key and by far the most important change is to switch to a policy of constraining money supply as distinct from manipulating interest rates." Greenspan grants that "for an interim period, interest rates could be highly unstable; the prime rate could easily go up to 16%." But he would have gone further than Fed Chairman Volcker: "I would also have announced some major curtailments of federal subsidy programs for credit...
...morally dangerous and that sex must be linked to commitment to marriage, children, the family, society-that its pursuit must be a reinforcement of fidelity rather than an encouragement to promiscuity. The chief issues stirred by John Paul's conservative stands on morality, however, have long and distinct histories in the church...
...often in diplomatic history, the current crisis had an almost innocuous beginning. In mid-August, U.S. intelligence agencies concluded (from yet undisclosed evidence) that Soviet combat forces, as distinct from advisers, were in Cuba. At that point, the matter might have been quietly clarified and even settled by Moscow and Washington with some adroit negotiating. But the Administration lost control of the issue when it conveyed the intelligence findings to Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an Idaho Democrat who faces a tough re-election fight next year. Church went public with the matter...
...people at each of our functions, but they're usually a different 30 or 40," Trueheart says. "The club reflects Harvard--it's very plural. There are a lot of different, individual people, with very distinct interests...
...guides never bothered to call all year, according to a survey conducted at the end of last year. Another third of the freshmen did meet their guides, but they had "no warm feelings" connected with the experience, Arthur J. Kyriazis '80-3, chairman of SHS admitted with distinct discomfort...