Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to help organize a commission on mental health. She would certainly be interested in the comprehensive health care program. I'll let her decide what sort of projects she wants to become involved in. But she and other members of my family will probably travel a good bit, both within this country and in foreign countries. I'll use her as an extension of myself...
Moore's various duties for the CIA apparently included "logistics," but the agency refused to be more specific. After a heart attack in 1973, he retired on an estimated $15,000-a-year disability pension. Father of four children and a voluble antiCommunist, he was considered a bit eccentric by neighbors. They reported that he was the sort of man who would rail at their teen-age sons one day and try to make amends the next by righting their overturned garbage cans...
...Hoping to avoid controversy, Carter turned to Brown, a physicist who had been one of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's prize Whiz Kids and Lyndon Johnson's Air Force Secretary during the Viet Nam War. A skilled manager with a fuzzy ideological image (hawks consider him a bit dovish and vice versa), he seemed a safe compromise...
...considered inflationary in its original form. He has also argued for some form of jawboning as well as wage and price guideposts to help control inflation. Whenever possible, however, he prefers to let the private sector work by itself, free of Government restraints. In fact, while Schultze remains every bit the zealous social reformer that he was as Lyndon Johnson's Budget Director, he has lately been preaching a free-market version of social activism. He has urged the Government to rely less on new laws and massive programs and more on subsidies, taxes and other incentives that might...
...Inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, will abate a tiny bit from the 5.8% expected for this year to 5.7%, and hold there until the end of 1977. This is dramatically better than past doubledigit levels. But Board Member Robert Nathan, who manages his own consulting firm in Washington, feels that the inflation figures have benefited disproportionately from "windfalls" of relatively steady prices of food and fuel...