Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such is the new face of Harvard's freedoms. And when one asks how one is to understand Korean economics and society without all that has been fumigated, and dares observe that Korea's own documentation and cultural emphasis lay precisely in the omitted areas, the annoyed retort lays chief store on the importance of ready cash. Harvard's stern and parsimonious forebears must somehow find sleep through the plashing of somewhat tainted gold. Seoul's terms are 'strings' indeed...
...Possessed by Caesarmania" and "obsessed with power." That is how Christian Democrat Helmut Kohl has recently been castigating Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. One Social Democratic retort, fired off by Party Chairman Willy Brandt, is that the Christian Democrats are "oozing arrogance and stupidity with their upper-class attitudes." Schmidt, whose sharp tongue long ago earned him the nickname "the Lip," contemptuously refers to Kohl, who is Minister-President (governor) of the Rhineland-Palatinate, as "the Minister-President of where...
...colleague Arnold Harberger complains that the Chileans have in fact been violating a prime tenet of Friedmanism: that a nation's money supply should expand at a steady but moderate pace. The Chilean money supply jumped 27.5% in this year's first quarter alone. The Chicago Boys retort that they have cut down as rapidly as they can the rate at which they are printing new pesos. Indeed, they point out that since prices have been shooting up even more rapidly, the "real" money supply-discounted for inflation-has actually been reduced...
...seekers caught in the degree-holders' crunch react variously to their condition. Some, at least at first, are indignant. Alicia Kaye, office manager for a Los Angeles employment agency, reports that liberal-arts majors who are told of openings in insurance or secretarial work often retort: "Why should I take a $600-a-month job when I can collect unemployment benefits?" Others rethink their ambitions: Jackie Smith, a Boston College marketing major who is "shocked and amazed" not to find a job in business, has been a professional boxer for six years and is keeping in shape-just...
Kelley's retort: the FBI must sometimes infiltrate groups to learn whether laws are about to be broken. Said he: "As a practical matter, the line between intelligence work and regular criminal investigations is often difficult to describe. What begins as an intelligence investigation may well end in arrest and prosecution of the subject...