Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hunger." Chaired by former Panama Canal Negotiator Sol Linowitz, 64, the commission has a $3 million budget and a daunting task: to review existing studies on global food shortages, consult with international experts and recommend steps by mid-1979 that the U.S. and perhaps other nations can take to combat the problem...
...keep it (the strike) going. People just don't recognize the insidious effects of television...People don't read anymore, they just turn on the tube...They get so used to things being made obvious and explicit, getting hit over the head...I don't know how to combat...
...Guardsman. As Secretary of the Army, he asks hard questions about the treatment of black soldiers. He also is a strong advocate of a greater role for women, to the distress of many generals, including Rogers, who think too many women too soon may damage the Army's combat readiness...
...trade as a policy tool has led to sharp combat within the Administration between those who favor it (led by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski) and those who are strongly opposed (led by Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps). Carter seems to be leaning in some respects toward the Kreps side: he has now decreed that the U.S. should sell products to an unsavory customer if the customer could buy them somewhere else...
...same good sense should apply to the shotgun marriage between Government and business, in Bryom's view. Instead of telling companies how to combat pollution or industrial accidents, the Government should set short-term and long-term goals then use a tax system to reward companies that exceed them and penalize firms that "fail. Exasperated by the managers and regulgators who think that they can make sweeping decisions from a distant pinnacle he likes to say, "Santayana defined fanatics as those people who know what they are doing is what God would be doing if he only...