Word: attackable
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...bestowed upon the veteran leader. Among the 14 other Politburo members, only Leonid Brezhnev was moved to acknowledge "cordial gratitude" to Kosygin. Even that faint praise came after international surprise over Kosygin's unceremonious exit from power. Last week news of Kosygin's death of a heart attack in the Kremlin hospital was treated in more generous fashion. A day and a half after the event, the Soviet government and Communist Party made the announcement "with deep sorrow...
...determine the level of interest rates for borrowers and lenders alike. In October 1979, the Fed announced that it was scrapping its traditional inflation-fighting tactic of trying to regulate overall economic activity by manipulating interest rates within a narrow and relatively low range. The bank decided instead to attack the problem more directly by curbing the growth of the money supply itself...
This situation of relatively easy oil will not last indefinitely. Two weeks ago, an Iranian air attack against installations near Kirkuk knocked a key pumping and distribution center As a result, oil has stopped flowing through two of Iraq's four pipelines, reducing exports by almost 1 million bbl. a Saudi Arabia is also threatening to its production and send oil prices $50 per bbl. Oil Minister Yamani is demanding that world energy companies carrying heavy stocks start them down faster and that West nations stop squirreling more oil away strategic reserves. Indeed, the Saudis prod Western countries...
...Only one was ever considered as a possible organ donor. Two were women who had taken drug overdoses, one was a premature infant, another was a man paralyzed by a muscle-relaxing agent. The most sensational case was that of a man who lost consciousness after suffering a heart attack. He was saved only when the transplant surgeon, who was about to remove the kidneys, noticed a bobbing Adam's apple...
DIED. Alexei Kosygin, 76, longtime Soviet Premier who with Leonid Brezhnev and Nikolai Podgorny formed the "troika" that wrested power from Nikita Khrushchev in 1964; of a heart attack; in Moscow (see WORLD...