Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face of the overwhelming evidence that his Budget Director was, at the very least, a wheeler-dealer. Had Carter cut his losses early on by easing Lance out, he would have gotten himself off the hook." From Boston, Senior Correspondent James Bell noted: "A wide variety of politicians, businessmen and academicians only want to know when Lance is going and why he hasn't gone already. You can almost hear Carter's support dripping away like a faucet in the night...
Even farther down on the congressional agenda is the long-awaited tax-reform program. The President is expected to propose a plan later this month. But advance information that capital gains will be taxed as ordinary income has already aroused stiff opposition among businessmen. Scenting an issue, House Minority Leader John Rhodes thundered: "Poor economic policies have created a bad case of the jitters among the American people." Rhodes called for an across-the-board tax cut to prevent another recession. Al Ullman, Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, made the same plea. For most members...
...first officeholders in New York to support Jimmy Carter for President-has the nation for a client. She and her staff of ten provide White House access for groups of every stripe. The range is unlimited: Texas farm workers who will come this week to seek advice on unionizing, businessmen opposing a consumers' agency, battered wives pleading for protective legislation. Gloria Steinem and other feminists, Poet Allen Ginsberg, Private Slovik's widow, doctors, lawyers, Indian chiefs-Midge deals with them all. As part of her role as Ms. Outsider, she arranged a Rose Garden meeting two weeks...
...consulate that has outlived the prosperity of the American-owned rubber plantations that once flourished there. The Viet Nam War is over. In literary time, it is post-Heart of Darkness and The Ugly American. The real action now takes place in far-flung Hiltons, where multinational businessmen confer in the Esperanto of global trade...
...assumption that growth would go on for ever." The economy of the '70s has been dominated by inflation, recession and fears of energy shortages, all adding up to that worst of stock market poisons-uncertainty. Complains David Grove, a member of the TIME Board of Economists: "Businessmen and consumers can't really make rational decisions as easily as they could in the past...