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...Senate speech, the G.O.P.'s Slade Gorton of Washington put some of his colleagues' thinking on the record. Gorton called Watt "a failure on his own terms, a destructively divisive force in American society, an albatross around the neck of his own President." The message got through to Watt. After the Republican lunch, Alan Simpson of Wyoming, a close friend of the Interior Secretary's, discussed with Watt what the Senators had said. Simpson quoted Watt as asserting, "I can't believe the viciousness of their remarks...
...than many people," he adds, explaining that in Bremen, women such as his own mother work full-time "out of necessity, and there's no great cause attached to it." In general he lauds the instinct to "take care of problems back home, rather than looking for handouts." His albatross upon arrival here, he says, was not overt intolerance, but "ignorance, just lack of learning...I hadn't recognized the extent of certain problems...
Mondale may be ready for the presidency, but a political albatross called the Carter Administration still hangs around his neck...
Falldin did not have to deal with the extravagant military budget required by Reagan's friends in the military-industrial complex and rightist religious sects. His fiscal albatross was the heavy burden on the government's social programs, increased by the gradual failure of large Swedish industries such as shipbuilding, steel and iron one mining. The LO, the Swedish equivalent of the APL-CIO, complained fiercely even at the unemployment rise from 2 to 4 percent. The coalition tried to hold the brakes on social spending, but government service still grew to 65 percent of the GNP. At the same...
...mind when it first started the cogeneration facility six years ago. But MATEP has been bogged down in court and regulatory battles almost since its inception. With Harvard's diesels once again embattled, the shopping mall concept is emblematic of what the university should do with its fiscal albatross...