Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that foundations must pay out annually in grants if their assets fall below a certain amount. Another committee motion, to reduce the excise tax that foundations pay on earnings, was narrowly defeated but will probably be brought up again. More important, the Bundy action can be construed as a blunt message to Washington: do something about the falling stock market and the inflation that ate up $400 million of the Ford Foundation's purchasing power in 1973 or be prepared to pick up the slack if the foundation cuts back or goes under...
...That blunt response by President Gerald Ford at his press conference last week was either remarkably careless or remarkably candid. It left the troubling impression, which the Administration afterward did nothing to dispel, that the U.S. feels free to subvert another government whenever it suits American policy. In an era of détente with the Soviet Union and improving relations with China, Ford's words seemed to represent an anachronistic, cold-war view of national security reminiscent of the 1950s. Complained Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho with considerable hyperbole: "[It is] tantamount to saying that we respect...
Uncommonly Blunt. In his first formal venture into international diplomacy, Ford offered the delegates the same thing he had given the American people in his Inaugural Address, "a little straight talk among friends." The delegates who heard him agreed afterward that the President had been uncommonly blunt. "Developing and developed countries, market and nonmarket economies-we are all part of one interdependent economic system," he said. Ford went on to imply that some countries-namely the oil-producing nations -appeared to be acting less interdependently than they had a right...
...compared: Westmoreland was the crusader sent to win the war; Abrams was the realist sent to help end U.S. involvement in it. Differences in style, however, were clearer. Westmoreland was the stiff, ramrod, ceremonial-looking commander who saw light at the end of the tunnel. Abrams was a blunt, earthy soldier who gave reporters refreshingly frank estimates of the precarious American position and surprised critics of the Army by insisting on the prosecution of six Green Berets who murdered a suspected Vietnamese double agent...
...Raymond Liggio, who treated Anderson after the July incident, told The Crimson in August that his examination showed Anderson's eye was struck by a blunt object. He said a pupil defect observed in Anderson's eye may indicate permanent damage to the optic nerve...