Word: belief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe that the United States will drown in the waves of complacency of the '70s. My reason for this belief is founded on the tenet that an individual can make a difference. Depite the ignominious, alienating pressures of the expanding world. I believe that people can improve their society and that they can enhance their environment. What I submit is not a lofty doctrine of Utopian ideals; instead, it is a confidence, in self and in humanity, that defeats the forces of apathy, insolence, and disgust which have invaded...
...Carter sounded stubborn, but businessmen as well as Congressmen say they have become accustomed to Carter talking tougher than he acts. Told that congressional leaders believe he will back down on his veto threats, the President arched forward and said with a rolling sonority: "Anyone who depends on the belief that I will not veto a spending bill that breached the integrity of my budget is laboring under a serious misapprehension. I will not hesitate one minute to veto the bill...
...another of those seesaw weeks in U.S.-Soviet relations. First, Jimmy Carter spoke soothingly at a press conference of his "deep belief that the underlying relationship between ourselves and the Soviets is stable" and that he and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev want "to have better friendship." Next, both governments calmly carried out a trade: the U.S. released two accused Soviet spies from jail in New Jersey, while the Soviets set free an American charged with currency violations in Moscow. But then Soviet authorities suddenly summoned two American reporters to a Moscow court and charged them with "denigrating the honor...
Congressional pressure has also forced the Administration to abandon hope for enactment of the bill's capital gains provisions. The reforms, which would have raised capital gains taxes for some upper-income taxpayers, reflected Carter's populist belief that tax breaks on gains from sales of stocks and other property do little for the economy and benefit mainly wealthy investors. Though the White House would now be grudgingly content to see the tax remain at its present maximum effective rate of 49%, the Steiger amendment seeks to cut the rate to no more than 25%, the level that...
Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti said yesterday, "Our belief is that U.S.- based companies have an opportunity to improve the situation in South Africa, and as shareholder, Yale is in a position to use that opportunity...