Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...capitalism that no system can deliver. They confuse hope with promise. When everyone begins demanding more, the Inevitable result is a madder scramble for a nation's limited output and a bidding up of prices. Says Albert T. Sommers, chief economist of the Conference Board, a leading business research group: "The failure of our political system to contain the growth of social demands within limits tolerable to the free market is the essential first cause of inflation...
...crucial respect. The nation's power elite, which shapes and guides the course of the economy as a whole, practices a democratic ideal that individualistic Americans claim as their own but often seem to ignore: the spirit of compromise and consensus. This has enabled the group-oriented Japanese to apportion wealth and nurture growth in one of the world's most cramped and populous countries...
Liddy retaliated. He found a way to tap prison staff telephones, then embarrassed the officers with his knowledge of their sexual affairs and theft of prison property. At his final prison stop, the federal prison camp at Allenwood, Pa., Liddy enraged one group of convicts by persuading guards to turn off TV sets after midnight so he could sleep. The angry prisoners first harassed him, then even vowed to kill...
...firm in 1962. Liddy in 1968 campaigned hard for Richard Nixon's election to the presidency, leading to an appointment as a special assistant in the Treasury Department in 1969. In June 1971, he shifted to the White House and was assigned to a secret group that was to become known as the "plumbers." The group was headed by Egil ("Bud") Krogh, deputy assistant to the President, and David Young, a former assistant to Henry Kissinger. Howard Hunt, a former CIA agent, was Liddy's coworker. Their priority was to discredit Daniel Ellsberg, whose release of the Pentagon...
...sudden disappearances, which I labeled on the chart in the original German, Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog), would strike fear into the hearts of the leftist guerrillas [as would] the team slated to carry out the plan as a "Special Action Group." When John Mitchell asked "What's that?" I knew that Mitchell, a naval officer in World War II, would get the message if I translated the English "Special Action Group" into German. It was a gross exaggeration, but it made my point. "An Einsatzgruppe, General, "I said, inadvertently using a hard g for the word General...