Word: brief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subject of all the celebration, he spent much of last week honing an Inaugural speech that he hopes to keep brief. On reading a volume of all past Inaugural Addresses, Carter especially admired the tight, 1,500-word speech by John F. Kennedy and Woodrow Wilson's esteemed first Inaugural Address. Carter asked his top appointees and various staffers, as well as Mondale, for suggestions. Then, working in his study in Plains, he jotted his ideas on small pieces of paper, arranging them in speech sequence. Speechwriter Patrick Anderson provided a working draft, which Carter revised and polished, reading...
Ford's temperate approach put to rest the fears of Carter people that they might have to make drastic changes in a perilously brief time-by Feb. 15, they must have their own fiscal 1978 budget prepared to submit to Congress. Without having to worry about the budget totals, they are free to concentrate on specific areas where they can take issue with Ford. He requests a sizable $12.9 billion jump in defense spending, to $123.1 billion. Carter can trim $5 billion or more from the total-as he pledged in the campaign -without upsetting many Pentagon plans...
...housing system--on February 15, probably with the same gavel, Sherlock Holmes pipe and good humor that he employed at the CHUL meeting. The decisions are ultimately his. Making a prediction here would resemble nothing so much as a dancing upon an already cracking limb. But a brief word of advice: freshmen shouldn't plan on enjoying Canaday's generosity next year, nor should applicants to the class of '81 waste any time deciding whether they want to live in the Quad...
...governmental body in Washington has no head. Jimmy Carter has remained in Plains, Ga., and for all the marvels of communications, to most of Washington he is a brief bit of film at the end of the afternoon soaps, a quiet figure in blue denim, walking the town streets, hugging his small daughter and comforting his aging mother. His thoughts are edited. His voice is electronic...
...brief and poignant suicide note last week catapulted Israel's already turbulent political situation into chaos...