Word: consultations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days' worth of the nation's oil needs. Environmentalists have been joined in the battle to prevent sale by some conservative Republicans, who feel that the auction would be contrary to President Reagan's pledges to share federal power with the states because Watt did not consult officials in Sacramento. California Republican Chairman Dr. Tirso del Junco wrote Watt that pushing the "extremely sensitive" sales would hurt the party in the state, which plans to file suit to block the auction, if it is scheduled...
...stop the controversy; he is a true believer in what he sees as Reagan's mandate to restrain the intrusive federal bureaucracy. Watt's explanation of why environmentalists oppose him may be right on the mark: "They were quite surprised and upset when we did not consult them on decisions. But we didn't need to. We knew exactly what we wanted...
...lesser known journeyman such as Pat Mines, who after 29 years in show business is at last in a Broadway hit, playing the wily courtier Count Orsini-Rosenberg in Amadeus. Says he: "I'm sure there is a 'fat list,' perhaps even written down, that producers consult. You like to think you're hired strictly for your abilities, but I know my size has gotten me jobs." Among actors who might be on any producer's list: Orson Welles, an epic creator who is known to the television generation as the butt of Johnny Carson...
...when State Department Counselor Robert McFarlane met with Begin last week to discuss the use of American weapons. But the Administration was dismayed that the Prime Minister offered not even symbolic concessions in the five-hour session. Said Begin afterward: "If anyone should think that one sovereign country should consult another about a specific military operation to defend its citizens, that would be absurd." Begin neither intimated that Israel would engage in soul searching before undertaking such a raid again nor signaled any possible movement on the stalled negotiations with Egypt about Palestinian autonomy. McFarlane left with nothing more than...
...Angeles housewife who lost her first husband, Herman Hornstein, in Auschwitz. Their daughter Erica, an office manager for a Los Angeles computer firm, wore a red-and-white shirt bearing the names of her mother's closest relatives. When Mrs. Deitch waited in line to consult the computer, another survivor complained that she would take up too much time with so many names to look up. Replied Mrs. Deitch, in tears: "It is better for you that your list isn't so long." Ultimately, she found a cousin who now lives in Miami...