Word: consultancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Among other things, it raised taxes on auto sales, lifted the price of gasoline by 14.3%, to $1.73 a gallon, and raised the government bank lending rate a startling four points, to 12%. Significantly, Prime Minister Moro, whose Christian Democrats are operating a minority monocolore government, was forced to consult with the Communists before he could start that program...
Louis J. Armistead, assistant to the vice-president for Community Affairs, said yesterday that the MDC did not consult with the University before making the decision to run the trial program...
...with Military Junta President General Francisco Morales Bermudez, gave a luncheon at the U.S. embassy, and attended a dinner in his honor at the Palacio Torre Tagle in Lima. His basic message: the U.S. does not object to Peru's pro-Third World policies and invites Lima to consult regularly with Washington "to discuss issues of common concern." In Brazil, the Secretary appraised the country as a relatively advanced society that still tends to support Third World demands against the rich nations. As he put it during a banquet in Brasilia, it "stands astride the great international challenge...
Carter concedes that he made an "inadvertent error" in overstating the relationship. He has, in fact, asked both men if he could consult them but so far neither he nor his staff has done so. (In London, George Ball confirmed that he had made "a genuine offer to advise and counsel Carter on foreign policy" after the two had a long discussion last autumn. Ball said the offer still stands...
Moynihan has won understandably mixed reviews at the U.N. The Israelis are delighted. But many Western allies are less enthusiastic. Before he introduced his resolution on worldwide amnesty for political prisoners (which was quickly defeated), Moynihan failed to consult any other delegations. One important Western ambassador first heard of the resolution when he tuned...