Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intend to reduce OSHA's staff of 2,700, which has almost doubled in the past five years, or its annual $134 million budget, which has nearly tripled in that time. So far businessmen give her good marks for intentions, lesser ones for accomplishment. Says James D. McKevitt, Washington counsel for the National Federation of Independent Business: "Talking a good game is one thing, but getting those bureaucrats at the bottom to implement it is something else. They often wall off the most well-intentioned administrator. They have the traffic-cop attitude. They just like the power of giving tickets...
Carter dispatched Vance to the Middle East with these revised tidings: to counsel moderation and sound out the possibilities for bringing Syria back into the negotiating process and to emphasize that Washington is not pushing for a separate deal between Cairo and Jerusalem. The U.S. had hoped to avoid an additional trip by the Secretary of State this year, fearing the effect of another spectacular without results. But in the end the President decided the U.S. must give Sadat all the help it can, particularly after the other Arabs rejected Sadat's invitation...
...chummily as Walter, John and Barbara, they deferentially answered back "Mr. President" or "Mr. Prime Minister," behaved like diplomats and asked soft questions, as if afraid their very questions might queer the peace. Confined to friction-free language, they repeatedly used words like historic and momentous; their principal editorial counsel was that viewers should judge the success of the meeting by what Sadat would get in return for his visit-though Sadat seems to have gone happily home without any such present...
Thomas C. Holt, associate professor of Afro-American Studies and of History, and Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, also took part in the discussion, which at times became a lively and informative debate. "I think it went extremely well," Lisa C. Jones '79, symposium moderator, said afterwards. "The discussion was very lively, as was predicted." Jones said, adding. "I think everyone enjoyed...
...Massachusetts Senate Ethics Committee Tuesday appointed James Vorenberg '49, professor of Law and master of Dunster House, as special counsel to investigate alleged illegal activity by two Senate staffers...