Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon's cautious conduct of the surtax fight paid off early in the week, when the House on a 210-to-205 vote approved the Administration's bill to continue the levy for a year and repeal the 7% business investment tax credit. The vote appeared closer than the issue actually was; G.O.P. leaders had been assured by many members that their votes were Nixon's if the measure actually faced defeat on the floor. Minority Whip Leslie Arends marched Republicans in from the cloakroom by ones and twos until he had enough votes...
There are, however, many changes that the U.S. can make in the way it deals with Latin America-changes that would produce both real and psychological benefits. The vast U.S. market should be opened more fully to Latin American goods. Nixon should seek to reduce congressional weight on the conduct of foreign relations, because the punitive legislation that Congress has enacted drastically reduces the President's room for maneuvering. Washington might consider channeling assistance through multinational agencies to avoid charges of political string-pulling. That would help mute the charge that the U.S. cares only about preserving the status...
...Washington last week, as the Senate Finance Committee began hearings into alleged abuses, Chairman Russell B. Long told IRS representatives that he had evidence of kickback arrangements involving nursing homes, doctors and drug suppliers. At the same time, the IRS announced that it planned to conduct a special audit of the income tax returns of an estimated 10,000 doctors who had received more than $25,000 apiece in Medicare and Medicaid payments from the Government last year...
...idea was the President's own. It began with his request to Billy Graham, a longtime friend, to conduct informal prayers there shortly after the Inauguration. Since then, there have been seven other Sunday services in the East Room. The enthusiastic response from invited religious leaders and the usual crowd of 280 or so high-ranking guests has made the ecumenical worship ceremonies into something of a new White House institution...
...this Franju follows the visual styles of the great early Continental directors (Feuillade, Murneu), who built their dramas by organizing action within long-lasting shots. Opposed to this is the analytic style (Griffith, Hitchcock) which probes the moral conduct of the action by cutting together short shots of different distances (e.g., from long shot of a group of people to a close shot of one reacting). The latter style attempts a rational understanding of people's action, dramatic events, by setting up rational positions in the characters, through which one can penetrate and divide up the action. The former gives...