Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jordan bridles at suggestions that he has at last become Carter's chief of staff. He does not want the job, and the notion of a Haldemanesque executive officer through whom other aides report is anathema to the President. But since last spring, Jordan has with increasing frequency taken charge of important situations. Says an associate: "There was a vacuum. You would sit in a meeting to hash out a problem. Everyone would speak his piece and then go off and do what he intended to do in the first place. Now Hamilton makes assignments and we all recognize...
Restrictions of the free market are anathema to the libertarians, who oppose anti-trust laws and regulatory agencies. However, Cosmides emphasized that she would support taking wealth away from corporations that have "made fortunes by sleeping with government...
Under way since the early 1970s, the feeding program is the centerpiece of an Israeli effort to protect endangered desert species and repopulate the land of the Bible with the animals that inhabited it during ancient times. Thus even such creatures as jackals and wolves, which are anathema to farmers, enjoy the benefits of government largesse. Says Zoologist Giora Ilany, 40: "If these animals are not saved, this country would look like the face of the moon...
...interagency committee in July began examining alternatives short of wage-price controls, which Carter himself last week again ruled out. The White House has also forbidden "guidelines"-but only the word, which is anathema to businessmen and union leaders. The concept, renamed "standards" or "trigger points," is one of the hottest prospects for Stage...
...should try to use that skepticism about the plan as a bargaining counter?against French privilege. According to the French, Britain tried to trade possible support for the monetary plan in exchange for reform of the Nine's longstanding agricultural policy, which is sacrosanct to subsidized French farmers and anathema to British housewives, who believe it has raised their food prices. The French were having none of it. "We cannot link the monetary problem to the agricultural question," snapped a French foreign ministry official. But the British called it basic fair play. Countered a Tory M.P.: "The hypocritical French have...