Word: broads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy often seems to be trying to accommodate himself to as broad a range of views as possible. Sometimes he sounds much like a New Frontier liberal. To Wall Street investors in New York, and again at a rally in Louisville, he said that Americans "are not asking much from Government," and then went on to define "not much" as jobs, moderate supermarket prices, reasonable mortgage rates, good schools, a healthy environment and safe streets. Providing all that in today's world economy is quite an order, even for a pragmatist. On other occasions, Kennedy has seemed to be harking...
...buxom secretary to the committee who is the root of Parliament's moral problem and who seems to know every government official by his first name, is the centerpiece of the show in more than just a visual way. Stoppard starts this character out as an unembellished dumb broad, and about halfway through the show transforms her into a voice of the common people, instructing the MPs on their duties, telling them, "The people don't care about what you do on your own time--it's only the newspapers," and eventually writing the draft of the committee report...
...report levelled a broad indictment at the nuclear industry and its regulators, but stopped short of recommending a moratorium--an issue which sharply divided the Commission...
...Jimmy Carter. Baker will have a tough time in the midwest and the west considering the host of Republican contenders from that area such as Rep. John Anderson (R-Ill), Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan) and Crane. However, the regional competition doesn't worry Baker yet. "He has a broad-based appeal, even with Democrats," says Cissy Baker adding, "because he knows that's the only...
...works within broad guidelines set by the Corporation, but there's almost no Corporation interference in HMC's day-to-day decisions. Putnam gives the Corporation a list of HMC's transactions every week. "I try to be able to answer questions, but there are very few questions," he says. If HMC's performance began to decline, he adds, the Corporation would not try to interfere in specific investment choices. "We would rather make personnel changes, switch some people around," he says...