Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William N. Thompson's suggestion is both callous and incorrect. A few years ago, early retirement was pushed as a solution for unemployment. An unemployed young person is also costly to society. The culprit is inflation. When our Government balances the budget, inflation can be brought under control and hard-earned pensions can be enjoyed by retirees...
...Carter's powers of incumbency ?his control of the party machinery in many states, of federal patronage and funds?are offset at least in part by strengths that Kennedy inherited from his brothers. Says Theodore White: "The shadow legions of the Kennedys stretch from Maine to San Francisco. Just as Ezekiel's prophecy had the power to wake the dead, the Kennedy name will bring out the people who remember the old days with the sentiment of youth...
...first widened the war in Viet Nam and saw almost none of his main legislative proposals pass Congress. Americans have a sense, says Theodore H. White, the chronicler of Presidents, "that Jack Kennedy's Administration was the last one in which it seemed that politics could give people control of their destiny...
...have no implications for the safety of the other 72 U.S. nuclear power plants or the 88 new plants for which construction permits have been granted. But the commission's report places the blame so widely on federal regulators, the plant's builders and managers and control room operators that six of the twelve members voted to ask President Carter to ban the construction of any new nuclear plants until suggested reforms could be enacted. This moratorium failed to gain a majority only because Kemeny, who had supported other forms of a ban in preliminary voting, inexplicably abstained...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week proposed to fine Met Ed $155,000, the maximum permitted by law, for safety violations at Three Mile Island. But the NRC itself comes in for considerable censure in the Kemeny report. Kemeny and colleagues conclude that Met Ed's training program for control room operators met regulations set by the NRC-but finds those standards ''shallow'' and ''inadequate for responding to the accident...