Word: pull
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...strategy is to pull all of the American troops back behind the battlements and cease a lot of the American ground attacks, "Vietnamization' means supplying guns as fast as we can make them to the South Vietnamese army and then putting a butter of South Vietnamese troops between the attacking NLF and the Americans- in order to cut American casualties...
...forced to find what life they can in the cement, glass and steel. They lavish eight hours a day, a quarter of their life, on those structures, forcing part of themselves into the buildings. But the part of their personalities they invest in the buildings, and the part they pull out for sheer companionship, begin to stare back at them through every window. If you hate what you create, then you hate yourself, but trying to love the skyscrapers of New York must be like kissing a rock. So unlike Pygmalion, the construction workers cannot even fall in love with...
...Pull the Plug. In response to these warnings, President Nixon's adviser on consumer affairs, Mrs. Virginia H. Knauer, urged consumers to unplug refrigerators, freezers and electric stoves during brownouts: "This will prevent voltage irregularities from damaging your appliances." Moreover, the Nixon Administration is now considering a plan to reorganize the Atomic Energy Commission to deal exclusively with all forms of energy and to prevent future power shortages...
...with herself. Her Hedda has replaced duty to others with the new, disguised puritanism of self-fulfillment: duty to oneself. She wants to do her own thing, if only she knew what it was. Push her bumbling academic husband into politics? Take on a new lover? Or pull back onto her puppet strings the old lover she never quite had the courage to claim? It is a compassionately balanced mood-portrait of modern woman: boredom at the level of panic, a yawn that comes out a scream. And it is a private masterpiece of Hedda, at least as much Worth...
...borrowed a startling $9 billion of Eurodollars. That gave the banks more money to lend in America, and eased the sting of the Federal Reserve's tight-money policy. But the U.S.'s borrowing drove Eurodollar interest rates as high as 12%, and the rise helped to pull up all other European interest rates. > Foreign central banks can buy up unwanted dollars and hold them in official reserves. In West Germany, the Bundesbank last week bought $500 million that flooded in-mostly from speculators-during a single day. This process is inflationary, because the foreign currency paid...