Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration did not respond immediately to the other ideas. Housing and Urban Development Secretary James T. Lynn, who chaired the meet ing, said that he had come "to listen, not to talk." But he left the conferees with one final bleak thought: even if programs of special help to construction are enacted immediately, they "would have no drastic effect for four or five months...
Although specific policies have not yet been outlined in detail, the broad strategies Harvard Management will use in light of the bleak economic outlook and high rate of inflation will require a cutback in Harvard holdings in regulated companies, such as public utilities...
Harry sings old songs to Tonto and reminisces lovingly about his courting and the wonders of his marriage. Reality chips the sentimental patina, though. His children, the products of this blissful union, are the walking wounded. Harry's New York son has resigned himself to a bleak wife and two ungovernable kids. His California counterpart, played with ironic self-pity by Larry Hagman, blubbers like a brat for a loan from Dad and for the benefit of his reassuring presence (he can split the rent that way). The daughter in Chicago (Ellen Burstyn) has just...
...earlier had talked against "unwarranted" cuts in military spending, he asserted this time that "no budget for any department is sacrosanct, and that includes the Defense budget." When asked what advice he could give the American worker confronted by soaring rises in the price of everything, Ford offered only bleak counsel: emulate the belt-tightening example of the Administration and "watch every penny...
...receive an invitation to join the Hasty Pudding Club, but you should remember that certain bleak financial prospects dictated that concession to liberation. You might also keep in mind that a similar situation prevailed when Harvard chose to teach men and women in the same lecture halls rather than continuing the practice of letting Radcliffe pay a few faculty members to give the same lecture twice--first in the Yard, and then at the "Annex...