Word: blunts
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Second, the Administration's relations with organized labor are at an abysmal low. Both union and Government insiders sum up the attitudes of President Carter and AFL-CIO Chief George Meany in four blunt words: "They hate each other." Meany bitterly complains that the guidelines press down on wages more than on prices, and calls for mandatory controls on both. In the latest round of hostilities, Carter last week crossed Meany's name off the list of Government-approved directors of the Communications Satellite Corp. (COMSAT), which prompted Meany's heir apparent, AFL-CIO Treasurer Lane Kirkland...
...While Gore has often been impolitically blunt with Hollywood, there have also been moments when Gore the Politician seemed to be apologizing to the industry for what Gore the Crusader had done. Those moments, no surprise, have coincided with the times that Gore is gearing up for the grubby, expensive proposition of running for president. Shortly before his 1988 race, Al and Tipper suggested during an off-the-record lunch with leading entertainment figures that her campaign against the record industry had got out of hand, particularly when it reached hearings before the Senate Commerce Committee, where Gore...
Carter sought to blunt some of the conservative reaction by indicating that normalization would lead eventually to a bonanza for the American economy. He spoke to reporters glowingly of "the new vista for prosperous trade relationships with almost a billion people." U.S. trade with the mainland now totals only about $1 billion a year. Says Ping-ti Ho, an expert on China at the University of Chicago: "The reason the Chinese have not bought from the U.S. is largely related to the absence of full diplomatic relations. Normalization will remove this barrier...
...served as military assistant to the Secretary of Defense (1959-63), and in 1968 became responsible for the U.S. air war in Southeast Asia. In 1973 President Nixon made him chief of staff of the Air Force and one year later appointed him to his last post. A blunt man with a compulsion to speak his mind, Brown caused a storm of protest when in 1974 he criticized Jewish influence on U.S. foreign policy...
...Trip to China and The White House Transcripts-were financial failures, with returns as high as 60%. The Pentagon Papers was their biggest success, with 1.66 million in print. "It is a high-risk venture," admits Stuart Applebaum, Bantam's publicity manager. Rena Wolner of Berkley is more blunt. Says she: "It's crap shooting...