Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Colorado: "It is difficult to put me in a category. I strike out on my own." In his first term, Hart is already an influential member of three key committees: armed forces, environment and budget. An independent on most issues, he strongly supports SALT II and favors tighter federal control over nuclear power plants. But he also favors less
...federal control and regulation of the economy. Says he: "If you want the Government off your back, get your hand out of the Government's pocket." Handsome, lean and angular, Hart received a bachelor's degree from the Yale Divinity School, plus a Yale law degree. The role that brought him political attention, if not success, was directing Senator George McGovern's presidential campaign in 1972. Today he is gaining favor in the Senate. Says conservative Senator Barry Goldwater of Hart: "You can disagree with him politically, but I have never met a man who is more honest and more...
...long history of heart trouble, was in Hadassah Hospital suffering from what was officially described as a blood clot in a small artery of his brain. It had cost him possibly the permanent loss of 25% of his vision. Doctors and aides alike insisted that the affliction was under control, with the help of anticoagulant drugs, and that Begin's mental processes remained unimpaired. They said that he was cheerfully reading and continuing to conduct government business from...
...sight for Israel's economic crisis, Begin's government will be increasingly vulnerable to challenge from the opposition, from discontented Liberals and from restive members of his own Herut Party, like mercurial Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. Recognizing that it is all a healthy Begin can do to control his contentious Cabinet, Israelis wondered how long the ailing Premier could do that...
...thus beating out two rivals for majority interest in the line. Texas International, a small, aggressive carrier that, like Pan Am, has received preliminary approval to merge with National from the Civil Aeronautics Board, holds about 25% of the stock. Eastern Air Lines has also been trying to gain control of National in a separate proceeding, but has so far not got a preliminary CAB decision on its application...