Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a high-level official primarily responsible for dealing with Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat. In the wake of the Camp David summit, the two leaders were constantly turning to Carter for counsel. The President had made up his mind that Vance was not strong enough to control the volatile peace negotiations, and he was not satisfied that Brzezinski was able to make decisions on his own. "Cy can't hold Begin and Sadat away from me," Carter complained to his closest White House confidants, "and Zbig is into my office every 15 minutes." The President told his aides...
When Roy Jenkins was Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer a decade ago, he boasted about his record of bringing "public expenditure under very sharp control." He has been less successful in his tenure as president of the European Commission, a job he has held for the past 2½ years. During his stewardship in the European Community's top administrative post, a recent audit has revealed, many of the E.C.'s 13 commissioners went on an expense account binge that was anything but controlled...
...that the real answer to shedding pounds is changing lifestyles. Says Dr. Victor Vertes, director of the weight loss clinic at Cleveland's Mt. Sinai Hospital: "These drugs are not going to burn calories. You've got to curb your caloric intake. And for long-term weight control, they're completely useless. You can't take them for the rest of your life...
Though the new code frowns on promiscuity, it also concedes the difficulty of continence. "When you try to excessively control sex, you might end up touching off an explosion," it explains. Masturbation, the handbook says, is "the safest way" to relieve sexual tensions and certainly preferable to dalliance with prostitutes. Reason: "You might even be blackmailed into marrying such a girl...
...physicians. Many doctors favor expanding nurses' responsibilities, letting them handle minor problems, if only to give physicians more time for more serious cases. Nurses often do this anyway, with doctors' encouragement. But the majority of physicians, including many of the new women M.D.s, still insist on complete control. As they like to say: "If nurses want to act as doctors, they should go to medical school...