Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Noting that students comprise only four per cent of the national population, Nixon's letter added that "no minority, no matter how united, how vocal, or how articulate, has veto power over a President's decision to do what he believes is right in the nation's interest...
...past, the project was greatly assisted by TIME'S Board of Economists, who lent their vast expertise at an all-day session with Church and his colleagues in the Business section. As a matter of fact, notes Senior Editor Marshall Loeb, "one year ago our board was saying that inflation would be a more persistent problem than anyone thought at that time. Now, much to our regret as citizens, their prediction has come true...
...worse than they went in. I have been accused of opposing parole and probation. I'm heartily in favor of them. But I am vigorously opposed to the abuse of parole and probation. The bleeding hearts on parole boards ought to be a little tougher. [In the matter of preventive detention] people who commit serious felonies-rape, murder, hijacking and kidnaping-should be incarcerated until they're tried, but it's absolutely wrong that they should have to wait seven or eight months before their trials...
...touchy task, since Samarina and other Vlach villages are within a few miles of the Albanian border. Greece and Albania never signed a peace treaty after World War II and are still technically at war. Of course, every official I went to denied he had any power in the matter and sent me along to other officials who they said
What underlies this interview is an ominous jingoism. Pattakos asserts that Greece's entry into the Common Market is not as important to Greece as it is to the Common Market. He says that tourists and their money don't matter, but that they can benefit by absorbing the Olympic spirit of Greece. Greek politics during the past century and a half since Greece's independence from the Ottoman Empire has been dominated by the recurrence of the so-called Megale Idea or Great Idea-the notion that Greece will take back all the lands which were once Greek. These...