Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regretted the move, and continued to look for ways to retain his office. On the Tuesday of the week of the Democratic convention, Johnson sent Connally to see Hubert Humphrey. Connally warned the Vice President not to break with Johnson over the Viet Nam War, or he would begin a draft-Johnson movement at the following day's roll call...
...finally passed, the law compels the Attorney General to begin a preliminary investigation whenever he "receives specific information" that a high federal official (the President, Cabinet Secretaries, senior White House staffers, the director of the CIA" and others) "has committed a violation of any federal criminal...
...soon obvious to Strauss that the hard-line approach was not going to work. First Begin, and then, to everybody's consternation, Sadat, ridiculed the President's proposal. Sadat nervously warned Strauss that all of Carter's success in the Middle East would be destroyed if the U.S. pushed any further on the Palestinian issue. Both leaders also viewed Carter as so politically weakened at home that they questioned his determination. Strauss, now convinced that the binding instructions had weakened his own credibility with Begin and Sadat, returned home angry at his rivals...
...current slowdown continues, the danger will be that consumers will not just cut discretionary spending but also begin to forgo other purchases that would have a broad effect on the economy. Even now, studies show that consumer "confidence" is near its lowest level in 30 years. Because spending by individuals on all sorts of goods and services accounts for fully two-thirds of the nation's gross national product-far more than spending by Government and business combined-a sharp retrenchment in purchases of autos, houses and other big-ticket items would surely deepen the shallow recession that many...
...spoof of corporate life called Nine to Five, which 20th Century-Fox is about to begin filming, Actress Jane Fonda plays a secretary in a Los Angeles firm that is so large and anonymous that she and her water-cooler chums are not even sure what business it is in. However it does at the box office, the movie is sure to draw howls of pain from personnel officers. Reason: all over the country, companies are finding that despite today's near 6% unemployment rate, they are having to cope with a severe shortage of secretaries. That shortage...