Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meets for two or more hours a day with Carter, joining him for lunch every Monday, attending his weekly breakfasts with foreign policy advisers, and has an open invitation from Carter to attend every meeting with visiting world leaders. Declared the President: "There is no one who would approach him in his importance to me, his closeness to me and his ability to carry out a singular assignment with my complete trust...
What to do? Ward 22 Alderman Frank D. Stemberk tried a new approach. With $500 from the ward treasury and $220 from local businessmen, he offered a $1 bounty on every rat killed. Residents armed themselves with bats, homemade spears and flashlights, and waited on their porches for the rats to appear...
...then Carter went a significant step further. If the Palestine Liberation Organization endorsed United Nations resolutions that implicitly accept Israel's right to exist, he promised, "then we will begin to meet with them and to search for some accommodation and some reasonable approach to the Palestinian question...
Given Carter's tax-reform approach, businessmen may begin to wonder if they are not being treated like economy-class passengers...
Certainly the police administration shows few signs of wavering in its new approach. "If Chief Gorski came through the door today, he would see the department being run the same way as when he left," Lawrence J. Fennelly, an agent in the crime prevention unit, says. Indeed Lee, who had no police experience before taking over the department, says his technique of handling his new job has been to supervise the supervisors: to let the assistants who came in with Gorski, and who clearly think like him, to decide many substantive issues. "They have the title, so let's give...