Word: right
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economists admit, however, that they and almost all the other experts have grossly underestimated inflation's staying power in the past several years. Cracks Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources, Inc.: "I have been predicting the inflation rate for maybe 20 years, and I must have got it right about three times...
...democratic political system would be endangered. Yet in 1979 the economy showed a remarkable resiliency and a resistance to deep recession. People learned to cope. They reduced their spending for gas-thirsty big cars and such little luxuries as hardcover books, records and tennis equipment. But they kept right on spending for other goods, particularly the high-quality and the durable, in part because they figured that almost everything would cost more tomorrow and they had better buy products that would last...
...reflects a conviction that Law 815 is a government tool aimed at weakening the student union while encouraging the "silent majority" of unorganized students. For its part, the government has made matters worse by accusing the students of seizing the campuses simply because "they are lazy and want the right to be 'eternal.' " But why do so many students fail the exams at all? A root cause is one that Law 815 ignores: overcrowding. Professors often lecture to classes of 1,500 students. Only 10% of Athens University's 45,000 students are housed in dorms...
...performers, movement, lighting, costumes and sets all blend together in Fosse productions to create brilliant flashes of exhilarating razzle-dazzle. Yet the man just does not know when to leave well enough alone. Too often Fosse insists on fusing entertainment with superficially conceived Big Themes. Certainly musicals have a right to be serious, but Fosse's song-and-dance flights into the metaphysical are less illuminating than pretentious. Who cares about, or even remembers, the deeper meanings of such glittery Fosse projects as Cabaret, Pippin and Chicago...
...highly classified report detailing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Its publication, wrote Gurfein, "would [not] vitally affect the security of the nation, except in the general framework of embarrassment. A cantankerous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve freedom of expression and the right of the people to know...