Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been hearing for 40 years." But he also feels that, as in the U.S. South, accommodation is possible. Similarly, he finds a parallel between dissidence in Russia today and the U.S. black activism of the early '60s. Says he: "In a sense, the Russian dissidents are a normal outgrowth of increasing education and affluence among the Russian elite. As Russian society begins to develop a greater consumer orientation, they're going to have a human rights explosion, just as we had in this country...
...spirit of the American South is an outgrowth of the trauma experienced by the U.S. in the '60s and early '70s. Long the nation's moral whipping boy, the South gained its amnesty during a period of racial tension, assassination, war, urban unrest, youthful alienation and political misconduct that left no American unaffected...
...with Lester Maddox last week in an attempt to gain inclusion in the crucial TV debates between President Ford and Jimmy Carter, his action was not entirely unexpected. McCarthy, 60, has, since his 1968 campaign, made the quixotic gesture his hallmark. Indeed, his challenge over the debates was an outgrowth of his most recent attempt to reach the White House-via an unlikely independent ticket...
...summit was an outgrowth of Kissinger's recent tour of Black Africa. He became convinced that the Vorster government was the key to any peaceful solution in the region, a point also made by several of the black leaders he talked with. Vorster, who recently met with Prime Minister Ian Smith, had planned to be a surrogate envoy for Rhodesia. He intended to warn Kissinger that as long as force and black terrorism are being used against the white-controlled regime, the Smith government will fight on to the bitter...
Weekend Calls. The action, which resulted largely from a series of weekend phone calls among central bankers, is a direct outgrowth of last November's economic summit at Rambouillet, France. At that meeting, President Gerald Ford and the heads of five other major industrial nations agreed to intervene to keep money markets orderly, which could include support for specific currencies that were deemed to have sunk too low. For months the British argued that investors had overreacted to Britain's formidable economic woes and had left sterling undervalued. While a cheaper pound gave British goods a price advantage...