Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They were waiting on the tarmac when the Egyptair Boeing 707 touched down, bringing Sadat from Paris, where he had dropped off his wife Jihan and his two-year-old grandson Sherif Marei, who was to receive medical treatment. At Andrews, Sadat praised Carter for the "brave and gallant act" of calling the summit. In a swipe at Begin, he warned: "No one has the right to block the road to peace. This is no time for maneuvers and worn-out ideas. It is time for magnanimity and reason...
Last month the committee in effect re-convicted James Earl Ray of stalking and slaying the civil rights leader in the spring of 1968. In the process, the Congressmen discredited the persistent theory that Ray did not act alone. Last week the committee turned to the Kennedy assassination and added credence to the main finding of the Warren Commission: Lee Harvey Oswald alone killed the President and wounded former Texas Governor John Connally...
...Interstate Commerce Commission to reject any rate increases that truck lines might seek in order to pay for a high settlement with the Teamsters; let in more lower-cost imported steel if American mills raise prices too much. Government officials are talking about administering the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act in a way that would hold construction wages down rather than pushing them up. The act commands that contractors pay the "prevailing" area wage on federally aided construction jobs, but gives the Administration wide latitude in defining what that prevailing wage...
...inflation rate. But the delays would so anger-labor and old people that the Administration is not expected to ask for them. Most likely it will merely pass the word that it is not opposed to delays and hope that this signal will be enough to move Congress to act...
...none of the 60 plants visited by McWhirter was a copy of the Sullivan Code easily available to nonwhite employees. Many local managers have moved too shyly and slowly to remove the most reprehensible barriers of apartheid and to advance nonwhites. But home offices could order their subsidiaries to act more forcefully. That is precisely the solution advocated by Sullivan, who feels it is too soon to dismiss the creative possibilities of U.S. enterprise. "The real test is not what the principles say; they are just words on a piece of paper," he contends. "The real test is what happens...