Word: approaches
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...Administration also took a conciliatory approach with the conference committees that are trying to resolve differences between the House and Senate on an energy program. The sessions are expected to go on for about a month. Last week the conferees accepted stricter House standards that require large new industrial plants to use coal instead of oil, but looser Senate standards on forcing existing plants to switch from gas to coal...
Carter last week made a low-key televised appeal for public support of his approach, while going out of his way to avoid antagonizing Congress. Said he: "This is not a contest of strength between the President and the Congress, nor between the House and the Senate." Moreover, White House lobbyists have not tried to pressure the conference committees. On Carter's orders, says Press Secretary Jody Powell, the White House will "not get directly involved until the crucial moment." Says another presidential adviser: "Obviously we're not going to get all we want." Compromise...
...society. Roberts's history comes at a convenient time for examining how The Post has gotten to the point where it can affect, even indirectly, the course of the American government. Roberts makes no attempt to analyze The Post's rise to journalistic greatness, and his strictly chronological approach to the paper's history may disappoint those who wonder what it means for society that in 40 years a bankrupt newspaper may grow to successfuly challenge the authority of a too-powerful President. But for those who want to know more about The Post than is shown...
...dynamic revolution seems to have given way to a more bureaucratic regime, which seems to stress production, not producers. But--at least before Mao's death--China was unique in its emphasis on change rather than consolidation of power, and Schell was able to appreciate the subtleties of that approach more than most visitors...
...West End. For Levine it seems to be a case of wanting to bring the singers closer to both the audience and his own podium. They do sound forth more gloriously, as 19th century operatic idols knew. But given the virtually endless depths of the Met stage, the approach seems not only nearsighted but also perverse and, in the end, dated...