Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week Carter kept up a hectic pace. He flew to Atlanta and Washington, conferred with scores of businessmen, Congressmen, northeastern Governors; the future Commander in Chief also called on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon, and toured the national military command center. On appointments, however, he remained intentionally slow and methodical. While flying on a chartered Boeing 727 from Atlanta to Washington, he told TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud: "These may be the most important two months of my first term. I'm anxious to get people into their jobs so that they take...
Though Carter was calling all the shots himself, he was keeping Fritz Mondale and Jordan with him at the center of the selection process. The three men had started their work just before Thanksgiving, when they sat alone for three hours in one of the huge formal living rooms of Blair House. Each man ticked off names for various departments. When Jordan declared at one point that a certain businessman would make a good No. 2 man in a big department, Carter broke in: "No, let me decide that." He would obviously keep tight control...
...Appalachian-women and observation of the U.N. Women's Year Conference in Mexico City last summer. This year's budget sets aside about $3000 for loans and grants. It also allows for $2800 in grants to groups, and already this year RUS has given $2000 to the Women's Center and about $850 to the new Association of Black Radcliffe Women...
This amount represents an increase over the funding stipulated in last year's act, which supported a significant chunk of the budget of the Russian Research Center--one of the few centers of its kind in the country...
...Kissinger is a man of paradoxes. When Columbia University President William J. McGill met with Kissinger on November 8 in Washington, he declined McGill's offer to work with the joint fundraising drive for the Russian Research Center and Columbia's Russian Institute, the Columbia Spectator reported on November...