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After campaigning on a pledge to tidy up the welfare mess, Carter ordered Califano to produce a plan last year. Califano's complex proposal would consolidate grants and try to give needy families a regular basis of support: a single-parent family of four could count on $4,200. Califano's plan would also try to help people help themselves. Welfare mothers would be able to keep more of their benefits if they went to work, and 1.4 million public service jobs would be made available for low-income people...
...carrying on his own form of pressure diplomacy. The keystone of the Greek Premier's foreign policy is to gain entry for Greece into the European Community. His reasons, however, have as much to do with politics as they do with economics. Says a Caramanlis aide: "Once in, we count on the European Community to back us in our disputes with Turkey." Ecevit is aware of that ploy. After the community's Foreign Ministers met last month with Ecevit, they agreed in principle to soothe Turkish fears of being isolated by Caramanlis...
...Blumenthal: "In view of our domestic problems, no substantial increase in assistance seems feasible at present." Many Western statesmen contend that the LDCs lack the infrastructure (roads, ports, dams, railways), political organization and expertise to use much more aid than they are now getting. Says West German Economics Minister Count Otto Lambsdorff: "I do not believe that a kind of Marshall Plan for the Third World-which today would have to be shouldered jointly by the U.S., Europe and Japan-is a feasible solution...
Eventually Curtiss published her Letters of Marcel Proust, and it brought a poignant meeting with the Countess Greffulhe, one of the models for the Duchess de Guermantes. All that remained of her remarkable beauty was exquisite bones and unique-colored eyes, which her cousin, the famous Count de Montesquiou, had compared to "black fireflies." Her memory was still young, however, and Proust was as vivid in mind as the day he walked into her salon. "I didn't like him," she recalled. "His sticky flattery was not to my taste. There was something I found unattractive about...
...prompt notification about it, the effect on admissions was minimal. "There was a group of a little over 100 people on whom we had already made a decision, but when we discovered the error, we reviewed all those applicants," Meyer says adding, "We did not change any decisions. GMATs count for approximately one-sixth of the decision so a nine or ten point error is not very significant...