Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be lifted in return for concessions by Turkey on Cyprus. He has also dealt with some even stickier problems: pushing the Panama Canal treaties, trying to convince Germany and Brazil that they should abandon a nuclear power plant deal and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt that he should publicly accept the neutron bomb. The busy Christopher heads an inner-agency committee charged with reconciling the Administration's human rights campaign with other policies. And when Vance is traveling, Christopher runs the department. "He's brighter than hell, a very important asset to Cy in holding the department together...
...panel last week recommended reform of exorbitant military pensions. Now, a 20-year veteran can retire at 37 and draw a full pension for the rest of his life. Thomas V. Jones, chairman of Northrop, a major defense contractor, charges that the Pentagon and its suppliers have come to accept cost overruns as a way of life. He urges that the Defense Department sign fixed-price contracts with no renegotiations allowed. If costs cannot be estimated accurately, says Jones, the military should award a prototype or development contract rather than a production contract...
...winning over a skeptical business community to Administration policy. Three weeks ago they recommended that Blumenthal be replaced by Strauss as the head of the anti-inflation drive. This time Carter took the advice, regardless of the consequences. When one of his staff warned him that Blumenthal might not accept the decision, Carter replied: "I'm set for that." White House staffers were, in fact, hoping that Blumenthal would resign. "Let him," remarked one high aide who had tangled with the Secretary. "We'll be better...
During the past few months, Strauss has used the telephone on his large French-provincial desk (adorned with a plaque asserting IT CAN BE DONE) to carry out many presidential missions. He has helped in pressuring coal companies to accept union demands during the recent miners' strike, promoting approval of the first Panama Canal treaty and persuading Senators to clear the nomination of G. William Miller as Federal Reserve chairman. The day after the committee swung behind Miller, Strauss told him: "Mondale and I worked that Banking Committee from A to Z yesterday. Now you can go to work...
...recent addition to the Health Professions Educational Assistance Act made financial aid to U.S. medical schools contingent upon acceptance of third-year medical students who have been trained abroad. Johns Hopkins and 17 other medical schools threatened to forfeit Government money rather than comply with the ruling. In December the legislation was changed to encourage, rather than require, medical schools to accept a small percentage of their enrollment from Americans studying abroad...