Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stansfield Turner. The CIA director looked better to Carter in Navy whites than he does in charge of U.S. intelligence. Carter is now said to agree with critics that his Annapolis classmate is too much of a lightweight and military bureaucrat for the job. Carter gives higher marks to Turner's deputy, Frank Carlucci. But because of the frequent turnover of CIA directors-five in six years -the President is reluctant to make a change...
...other hand, the Administration's foreign policymaking seems to be functioning better than ever. Carter seems more comfortable with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. On a picture of the two of them jogging in Jerusalem last month, Carter jokingly wrote: "At least once we're in step." The President is still high on Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, but some aides believe that because of Carter's personal involvement in the Middle East negotiations, Vance alone will not have the clout to keep future talks on track...
Thus when it came to launching the Ohio, the first of the Trident A-subs, at Electric Boat's Groton yard, the toughest thing Glenn said was, "Verification must be better defined ... or we risk having this vital treaty disapproved [by the Senate] or sent back to the President for further directed negotiating...
...leader of the Patriotic Front, who was in Lusaka last week to attend a meeting of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization. Mugabe's 8,500 Mozambique-based guerrillas have borne the brunt of the fighting inside Rhodesia, while most of Nkomo's larger and better equipped force has sat out the battle in Zambia...
...that entire hinterland villages stand vacant or nearly so. About 120,000 people from outlying provinces move to Athens every year, with the result that 40% of Greece's citizenry are now packed into the capital. The migrants come for the few available jobs, which are usually no better than the ones they fled. At the current rate of migration, Athens by the year 2000 will have a population of 6.5 million, more than half the nation...