Word: chews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House. To us Orientals, any desk is meant for reading and writing and not for putting shoes on, no matter how spick-and-span they may be. I am horrified to imagine what the new U.S. President will do in his office next. Please ask him not to chew gum while deciding the fate of nations...
...foreseeable. The market's drop reflects an unsentimental appreciation of the fact that the change in Administrations cannot quickly halt inflation. Referring to this summer's recently ended Midwest drought, which is sending up food prices, one broker quips: "What is he [President Ford] expected to do? Chew out the Lord for not providing rain?" Meanwhile, high interest rates continue to draw money out of stocks into such investments as Treasury notes and utility bonds, and trading is too light for many brokers to make a profit. Robert H.B. Baldwin, president of New York's Morgan Stanley...
Another question, which remains to be answered, is whether Ford offers anything more for the most burdensome office in the world. In a cutting commentary on the new President's intelligence, Lyndon Johnson once suggested that Ford had played football too long without a helmet, and could not chew gum and walk at the same time. Ford's executive abilities have yet to be tested, but there is little reason to doubt his political and legislative acumen. For nearly a quarter of a century, he has demonstrated his skills in one of the most complex parliamentary arenas on earth, winning...
...threadbare quality because that is all factories can afford to make at state-set prices. Massive government subsidies must be paid to industries and to Soviet agriculture in order to keep prices steady despite regular rises in production costs, caused by inefficient use of workers and machines. The subsidies chew up capital that would otherwise be invested in new plant and equipment and contribute to the persistent inability of Communist economies to expand fast enough to meet demands of consumers...
...want to bite off more than we can chew by getting involved in a secondary boycott," he said. Golden said, however, he will direct Harwich Lithographers to drop the Union insignia from the Gazette during the strike...