Word: processions
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Ronald Reagan really is behaving like a chairman of the board. He is remarkably removed from the daily hubbub of the transition. He is plainly not aware of many of the details about the process and just as plainly uninterested in knowing about them. But it is he who decides-from instinct, from experience and from his trust in his advisers who make the recommendations...
...noted that the Iranians have not asked him to arrange for clergymen to visit the hostages this Christmas, as they did last year. Though State Department officials consider such comments overly optimistic, they do not rule out a timely resolution to the hostage problem. Cautioned one Administration aide: "The process isn't stymied, but it's certainly in slow motion...
...process of riding out all the massive changes of the 60s and bringing about a few on their own, the Beatles also trashed an elementary law of geometry: this was one whole that was greater than the sum of its parts. Lennon was unfairly used as a means to put McCartney in his place, although Lennon had taken pains lately to redefine details of his collaboration with Paul, and to make sure credit was distributed accurately. The melodic range of the music ran from marching band to rhythm and blues, from tonal stunt flying to atonal acrobatics, once...
...sweep of postwar history, no event, no issue, no political or social process has more profoundly shaken the established world order, or brought about more rapid and tumultuous economic change, than the end of the era of cheap oil. This change has been called the energy crisis, but the term is too limiting. Rather than being merely an ongoing trauma over oil, the energy debacle has become a crisis of economics, of politics, of the very balance of power in world affairs. In short, it is an all-embracing, mesmerizing Everything Crisis...
...were more worried in 1974 about the recycling problem. The sums of money are bigger now, but we understand the process better. I don't think the banking system has reached its lending capacity. It can expand where necessary...