Word: deal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diplomacy to get the Soviets to eliminate the combat nature of this unit. I don't know yet whether we will succeed. If we do not succeed, we will take appropriate action to change the status quo." What did he mean by appropriate action? Replied Carter: "How to deal with this successfully is not an easy task. But we'll do the best we can." Carter also went out of his way to say that the Soviets were lying about the nature of the troops, an accusation he had made earlier-in private-to Congressmen. Declared the President...
...closing off all his bureaucratic or congressional escape routes, provided I could figure them out. Only then would I broach substance. But even with such tactics, I lost as often as I won. John Ehrlichman considered mine a cowardly procedure and decided he would teach me how to deal with Laird. Following the best administrative theory of White House predominance, Ehrlichman, without troubling to touch any bureaucratic or congressional bases, transmitted a direct order to Laird to relinquish some Army-owned land in Hawaii for a national park. Laird treated this clumsy procedure the way a matador handles the lunges...
...Danforth Center provides training programs for teaching fellows and section leaders. The Danforth Foundation gave a grant to start the center but not to support it. "They've done a great deal with very little, so far," says Glen W. Bowersock '57, associatedean of the Faculty for undergraduate education...
Whatever obstacles the committee faces, all agree that a great deal hinges on its success or failure...
This is a small bill, affecting few people, but it could mean a great deal to the well-being of each of them. Mark S. Cohen