Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lightly over a broad spectrum of national and foreign policies, the President concentrated almost exclusively on specific means to counter the worst economic slump since the Great Depression, the nation's almost 14% rate of inflation and the U.S.'s dangerous dependence on cartel-controlled foreign oil. Displaying the blunt candor that is his most politically attractive quality, the President proclaimed himself the bearer of "bad news," declared flatly that "the State of the Union is not good," and announced that he did not expect "much if any applause."* Then he unfurled an economic and energy program of considerable scope...
...imports be carried in U.S. vessels. He permitted?perhaps encouraged?vigorous antitrust action by his Justice Department, notably against AT&T. By taking blunt exception to a General Motors price hike, he forced a modest rollback. U.S. Steel, too, reconsidered a price increase when Ford grumbled...
...Pounds. There are also numerous financial regulations that would blunt the impact of foreign investment on the U.S. economy. For one thing, U.S. antitrust laws treat foreigners and Americans alike in their restrictions on market control. As for cocktail-party patter about secret takeovers by Arabs, such financial hugger-mugger is unlikely. Present disclosure laws require revelation of the actual owner of holdings of 10% or more in any company whose stock is publicly traded...
That piece of good advice did not come from a Democrat but from Mr. Republican himself: Senator Barry Goldwater, who was simply stating in his customary blunt way what most other members of Congress, and a fan- number of Americans generally, feel. Last week the President was handed a smashing defeat, partly by his own party, when his veto of a veterans' benefits bill was overridden by a vote of 394 to 10 in the House and 90 to 1 in the Senate. The measure, which increased educational aid to veterans by 22.7%, was inflationary, and it was consistent...
...next day the Free Press, which had endorsed the Republican ticket, demanded in a blunt editorial by Editorial Page Editor Joe H. Stroud that Damman be dumped. The Republicans countered by sending their lawyers to meet with Free Press editors and the two reporters, who, says Tyson, were told by the newspaper's counsel not to engage in debate. The result, to Tyson's dismay, was a Free Press editorial reversal, again written by Stroud, 48 hours before the election, stating that the paper did not have enough facts to support the charges. Angered, the city news staff...