Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reassuring ring, evoking images of leather upholstery, briar pipes, glasses of sherry, and urbane diplomats about to decide the fate of the world without undue interference from press or public. Those days are long gone, of course, but Jimmy Carter is taking a kind of subdued, 19th century approach to his two-day meeting with the leaders of Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada. He plans to listen and learn, and not press too hard for U.S. policies. No one expects great decisions to be made. At best the negotiators may agree to cooperate on such problems...
...March to impose higher tariffs on shoe imports is seen as an effective countering force, at least in spirit. Indeed the Europeans and the Japanese are by and large encouraged by what they have seen of Carter so far. Says one top European policymaker: "I detect a world approach that is very impressive." The President hopes to revive the bogged-down Tokyo Round of tariff-cutting trade negotiations begun two years ago in Geneva. Says one White House official: "All it takes is the necessary resolution by the top guys, and they will all be in London...
Once Carter has considered all the problems and settled on an approach that he deems both simple and fair -characteristics that may be incompatible when dealing with the subject-he plans not to reveal the details of his proposed legislation until the fall. And when the debate in Congress on the welfare mess begins, it is likely to go on for a long, long time. Jimmy Carter's struggle to fulfill his campaign pledge is just beginning...
...pair of shoes in a year. In one food store in old Havana, near some posters proclaiming ALL CUBA IS A GARDEN, only some scrawny carrots and withered beets could be found on display. There is a thriving black market in food and clothing, and young Cubans regularly approach foreigners to offer money for their shirts, jackets, sunglasses and portable radios...
...That approach is in keeping with the curiously muted tone that the whole debate has so far assumed-and is likely to retain for a while. Republican Congressmen, who have promised an energy program of their own, have as yet been unable to agree on what it should be. Several will be going on TV this week -on an ABC special-but to take individual potshots at parts of the program, not to unveil a comprehensive alternative. Executives of industries that fear they will be hurt by the energy package-oilmen, automakers, utility chiefs -are determined to maintain the statesmanlike...