Word: hullabaloo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...again today, when détente has become fairly tangible on the European continent, when the European conference in Helsinki has charted paths toward broader peaceful cooperation and when talks are under way in Vienna to reduce the level of military confrontation, there is a hullabaloo about "the Soviet military threat to Western Europe." Apparently, some in the West have found it very difficult to stomach both political détente and especially the intention to reinforce it by lessening the concentration of the military forces of the two sides in the center of Europe...
With all this hullabaloo about defending the rights of the people of the small and nonaligned nations by the so-called superpowers and the U.N., no one has had enough conscience to do something effective about the devastating war that has been going on with its barbaric massacres for almost four years in a peaceful country like Lebanon...
...blessed event, normally quiet Oldham (pop. 227,000) last week was in a state of siege. From as far off as Japan, scores of reporters and cameramen had converged on the town to be on hand for the birth of Baby Brown. Despite pleas from the doctors that the hullabaloo was endangering both mother and child, journalists steadfastly prowled the hospital's precincts. They were seeking any morsel of news. Perhaps a brief word with one of the doctors responsible for the Brown experiment: Patrick Steptoe, who came and went daily in his white Mercedes, dodging...
Almost unnoticed amid all this hullabaloo, the increases in interest rates that the Federal Reserve has forced have so far failed to check the growth of the money supply. In October the nation's money stock grew at an average annual rate estimated at 12%. That pace, if continued, could indeed be inflationary?yet the White House fears still higher interest would damage the recovery. That creates a nasty dilemma that will probably persist for some time...
...Soviet trade, grain deals get all the attention, and are provoking a red-hot debate about the wisdom of allowing the U.S.S.R. untrammeled access to American food supplies (see THE NATION). But almost unnoticed amid the hullabaloo, another type of American-Soviet commerce has been expanding far more smoothly and consistently. In an effort to modernize and expand their inefficient economy, the Soviets are turning to the U.S. for machines and technology. As a result, American sales of nonagricultural goods to the Soviet Union are likely to top $550 million this year, v. $309 million in 1974 and only...