Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schmidt is expected to announce something "very important" in his speech today. Some have predicted he will strongly endorse the second Strategic Arms Limitation agreement and encourage speedy passage in the U.S. Senate...
...peaceful protestors who attended the opening, yet again demonstrated his unwillingness to confront the South Africa issue openly and forcefully. Meanwhile, the often crude and threatening efforts of Kennedy School administrators to deter the protestors from having their say--including their insistence that the demonstrators violated an "agreement" that never existed--reflects a frame of mind that values the forms of pomp and ceremony over the substance of debate about meaningful issues. We sincerely hope that this reluctance to deal with reality will not continue to plague the school's administration...
...Jimmy Carter. Eager to slow the rising cost of food, the Administration condemned the bill when it was introduced in the House last February by a coalition of farm-state legislators. But when sugar industry supporters in Congress threatened to retaliate by blocking approval of the international trade agreement that was endorsed last month in Geneva, the White House abruptly switched signals and said the President would support the bill. The turnabout left White House Inflation Adviser Alfred Kahn in an impossible situation. Asked during House Agriculture Committee hearings if he considered the bill inflationary, Kahn replied: "Let the record...
...fiveyear, $7.5 billion modernization program. Chrysler officials recently visited 81 banks in Europe and North America, drew $100 million from company credit lines and persuaded bankers to stretch out $302.6 million of debt due next year. Chairman John Riccardo had previously renegotiated a $567.5 million revolving credit agreement with the banks, sold off most of the company's foreign operations and raised $250 million from a public offering of preferred stock. Now there is little left to sell, and Moody's and Standard & Poor's downgraded the company's credit rating in April...
...keep the rates up and productivity down. There's an agreement in the academy that if any new young humor writer writes us and sends along some of his material-no matter how good it is-we write him back and say, 'You don't have it, kid. Go into advertising.' " Still, there are a number of rising and risible newspaper humorists out there clamoring for attention. Among them...