Word: conference
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Labor is equally displeased with Carter's talk of trying to hold down inflation by having companies and unions confer with the Government before seeking increases in prices and wages. "We will not cooperate," insisted Meany. "We will oppose it completely and absolutely. It would destroy collective bargaining." On the whole, however, the unions still expect to get along well with the President...
...becoming Premier, Hua would probably remain as Chairman. But in the face of Teng's determination and drive, Hua might conceivably be reduced to filling only such ceremonial functions as greeting foreign dignitaries. Indeed, his only public action since Teng reappeared on the scene has been to confer with visiting Communists from Honduras...
...sound manager, Carter plans to restore the powers of the Cabinet Secretaries, so badly eroded by Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. In addition to regular Cabinet meetings, Carter intends to have smaller groups of Secretaries confer on issues that cut across departmental lines, such as urban development. "I'll use the Cabinet very aggressively," he says. "I don't intend to run the departments from the White House. I'm going to have a relatively small staff, and I'll trust my Cabinet members to manage their own departments." Press Secretary Jody Powell, 33, explains that Carter's organization chart...
...undiluted pleasures of the Bicentennial year has been the multiple revivals of the plays of Tennessee Williams. The best of these dramas pos sess poetic eloquence, humanistic compassion and arresting vitality. It is to be hoped that one of these years the judges in Stockholm will confer upon Williams the Nobel Prize for Literature, which has been accorded to only one U.S. play wright, Eugene O'Neill...
Shrinking Base. Carter's relatively narrow victory may also limit the benefits he can confer on blacks. They were only one element of a coalition that could come unstuck, shrinking Carter's base-and his re-election chances. The softest support of all may prove to be the white Southern voters who saw him as moderately conservative. Southern whites, after all, gave about three-quarters of their votes to Richard Nixon in 1972. If Carter seems to be overly attentive to blacks, they may quickly desert him. Carter's own pollster, Pat Caddell, feels that the Democratic...