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...tension between Cheney, whose office has had an increasing influence on presidential speeches, and Robert Hartmann, a longtime Ford political adviser and chief speech writer. Recently Ford promoted Cheney Aide David Gergen, 34, to White House special counsel and assigned Stefan Halper, 31, to help Cheney and Gergen assess the political implications of Administration initiatives. However, both Gergen and Halper are former speechwriters, a fact that will do little to diminish the tension between the Cheney and Hartmann operations...
...strength of the nation's recovery from its worst post-World War II recession have been blown away by the news of the past few months. That was the unanimous conclusion of members of TIME'S Board of Economists, who gathered in Manhattan last week to assess the prospects for the months ahead.* Their outlook: national production will grow a bit more rapidly, and rates of inflation and unemployment will come down somewhat more quickly, than they-and nearly all other experts-had foreseen earlier...
...week's end he decided to drop out of the race. "I will remain a candidate and I do not intend to endorse any other candidate at this time," said Scoop to a group of supporters. "I am a realist. Simply stated, we are out of money." Asked to assess Carter's chances for the nomination, Jackson declared frankly: "He is an open-field runner at this time...
...society's underdogs. He praised Martin Luther King Jr., "who was perhaps despised by many in this room because he shook up our social structure ... and demanded simply that black citizens be treated the same as white citizens." Added Carter: "As a farmer, I'm not qualified to assess the characteristics of the 9,100 inmates in the Georgia prisons, 50% of whom ought not to be there. They ought to be on probation or under some other supervision ... I don't know, it may be that poor people are the only ones who commit crimes, but I do know...
...review committee last fall appeared to reach a different conclusion on the department's evaluation of Hartman's teaching. Its report said the department undertook "no systematic attempt" to "assess, influence, or even find out precisely" what Hartman was teaching, despite the fact that "teaching performance purportedly was a central concern...