Word: controller
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...defensive in a dangerous world. For Jimmy Carter, that impression could be politically fatal. One reason he is slipping in the polls and stumbling in the primaries is the economy, but another is that the Administration so often seems to be dithering in its effort to regain control over events abroad. Yet his rivals offer very few alternative solutions. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott sent this assessment...
...conventional arms transfers, and the North-South dialogue. The President who came into office determined to reduce the emphasis on relations with the U.S.S.R. is now devoting long hours to the Soviets -and none too successfully either. The President who came into office with more technical expertise in arms control than any of his predecessors may end up presiding over the demise not just of SALT II but of SALT I as well; because of the shelving of SALT II, pressures are building within both the Pentagon and the Soviet Defense Ministry to scrap or at least suspend...
...miles wide. In later tests some cruises were dropped from B-52s 60 miles out into the Pacific and programmed to fly back over California and Nevada to Utah. Air Force F-4 Phantom chase planes closely followed to observe and take over the missiles by radio control if anything went wrong. During one General Dynamics flight, TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin watched the missile belting along at 500 m.p.h. across the desert about 10 ft. above the ground...
...early 1960s he devised Okun's Law: for every 3% jump in economic growth, unemployment declines 1%; until the 1970s stagflation, the rule worked perfectly. Okun also invented the "discomfort index," the sum of the rates of unemployment and inflation. Okun's abiding concern was to control inflation without triggering recession and its grim results for the poor. Economic efficiency, he believed, must yield somewhat to social equality, or as he put it: "Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket...
...Tears" on a single last year, in which he accused his partner of calculated crying, empty tears, while dissolving into sobs himself. It was a pretty good song (though not good enough for inclusion on Armed Forces, undercut by an unexpansive melody and Costello's lack of vocal control). The concept reappears on Get Happy!! in "B Movie," this time with a meaner, more controlled vocal; but the style, the emotion, is successfully rendered in "Riot Act." Hanging on every heavy, condemnatory thump of Pete Thomas's drum as he is led into custody, Elvis makes a last-stand plea...