Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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What Nixon wants Connally to do in Washington is probably not to make economic policy anyway, especially at this notably difficult time for the economy (see BUSINESS). Instead, Connally should serve him well as a far more forceful defender of that policy before Congress than was David Kennedy, a guileless Mormon who will move to a Cabinet-level job in international finance at the State Department. In terms of economic ideology, Connally is an enigma: he recently observed that the Administration's attack on inflation could not succeed without wage and price controls, but he has not said what...
...largest railroad, went bankrupt. The Penn Central had long been a victim of mismanagement and executive infighting, but it was pushed right off the tracks by its inability to refinance $152 million of its commercial paper. Such paper is a form of unsecured, short-term IOU. When money became difficult to borrow from banks, scores of corporations issued commercial paper to raise funds. Because such securities are usually bought by other companies that have spare cash to invest, a series of defaults could have spread financial shock waves throughout the U.S. business community. The Penn Central debacle caused well-founded...
...painted it on canvas, filmed it, shot 3,800 himself and instructed countless other guns−from the Queen Mother's private secretary to Actor Richard Todd−on the wily ways of "the loveliest bird that flies." The call of the pinkfoot, says Thorpe, is the most difficult to imitate. By recording the geese's ringing ung-unk on tape, he learned to distinguish between the gander's imperious high bark and the lower cry of the female. Out on the marshes he does both, relying on "sturdy vocal cords and plenty of cover...
...much light. There are air-pressure problems with some bubbles−now and then a tennis player will complain of popping ears. Acoustics are often eccentric. A hard-hit volley, for example, sometimes will sound like a battery of French 75s. Heating−or cooling−;the bubbles is difficult. The sun has a way of turning the structures into hothouses, while the cold winds of winter can overwhelm heating systems...
Harlow and Hepburn. For Howard Hughes, things have always come easily; it is people that have been difficult. "I suppose I am not like other men," he remarked while he was still in high school. "Most of them like to study people. I am not so interested in people as I should be, I guess. What I am tremendously interested in is science, the earth and the minerals that come with it." Hughes' father invented and patented the modern oil-drill bit−a device with 166 cutting edges−and rented it for $30,000 a well...