Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President got off to a promising start. In a blizzard of speeches and briefings early last week, he described plans to spend a breathtaking $141 billion over the next decade ("one of the biggest figures you ever heard ... the unparalleled peacetime commitment"). The aim is to cut U.S. oil imports in half, and thus prevent the nation's economy from remaining in bondage to the price and production whims of OPEC. For about 40 hours, beginning with his TV talk Sunday night, Carter was winning popular and political support for this economic moon shot. On Monday, in tub-thumping...
...Administration's most important SALT-sellers: Vance and Defense Secretary Harold Brown. They presented powerful arguments on behalf of the pact. Vance stressed that the accord "will greatly assist us in maintaining a stable balance of nuclear forces. It fully protects a strong American defense." Taking aim at critics who argue that SALT II is a bad deal for the U.S., Vance emphasized that the treaty "will permit, and in fact aid, the necessary modernization of our strategic forces. And it will slow the momentum of Soviet strategic programs." He was alluding to the fact that while...
...brought serious music to millions of Americans. A snowy-haired, white-mustachioed figure, he would walk briskly onstage and lead his Boston Pops Orchestra in a program of show tunes and classics. His philosophy was simple and insouciant: "My aim has been to give audiences a good time. I'd have trained seals if people wanted them." That was one of Fiedler's exaggerations, though he was not above appearing on a record jacket dressed as Santa Claus or as a jaunty Yankee Doodle dandy. Such clowning caused some highbrows to sneer. But to Boston audiences and those...
...goes for a rock-bottom $12,500. No matter. Keep going, keep the average up, aim for $10 million. The first day brings "over $4 million." The three-day total, a satisfied Wilson reports: "upwards of $7½ million." The pub is duly dispatched, to be knocked back into the bits and pieces of wood and glass from which it came and shipped off by container-arriving as one big jigsaw puzzle. The transportation and reassembly may cost as much as the object itself. But, insists Dennis Gibbons of Grand American Fare, "you couldn't build a paneled room...
...Boiling Water Reactor Training Center in Morris, Ill., 50 miles southwest of Chicago. Since it opened eleven years ago, it has been instructing more than 400 people a year in the fine art of running and maintaining G.E.-built reactors. Says Don Janacek, the school's "dean": "Our aim is to produce people who can operate their plants not just efficiently but safely...