Word: details
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of Carter's troubles resulted from his own inexperience, but he has been wise enough to learn from his failures. For instance, one of Carter's earliest problems in managing his Administration stemmed from his habit of getting immersed in arcane detail. He thus missed the broader implications of his policy choices...
Wexler's tactics seldom vary. First she pores through her bulging black notebooks that detail an issue's main features and its key advocates and critics. Then she invites interest groups to the White House to speak their minds. Later, potential supporters are asked back and told how they can aid the President on the issue. To help Carter's moribund energy bill, for example, Wexler last year met with at least 1,000 state officials and farm, urban, religious, business and. consumer leaders...
...avenues of attack. Government should loosen regulation, as President Carter has promised. One method would be to set pollution standards and impose stiff fines for violations, but leave it to industry to devise the least costly methods of cleaning up; this would be more sensible than specifying in great detail what equipment should be installed and how plants should be modified, as regulators often do now. Tax policies could be revised to spur investment. Economists quarrel about whether further cuts in taxes on capital gains and corporate profits, more generous investment tax credits or faster depreciation write-offs would...
...given jurisdiction over trucking by Congress in 1935. During the next four decades the ice proceeded to put trucking into the same straitjacket that it had fashioned for railroads. Truck routes were spelled out in minute detail New lines were permitted to enter interstate trade only if they could prove they would provide a service that existing carriers could not. Thanks to an antitrust exemption granted by Congress in 1948 truckers have been allowed to set their own rates, and they have prospered greatly. Indeed, over the past eight years the eight largest truck lines have earned an average...
...tale of how a Pole named Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski became the English novelist Joseph Conrad is as crammed with accidents and uncertainties as any of his fictions. It has been told before, but not recently and never in such detail. Biographer Frederick R. Karl, a professor of English at the City University of New York, has sifted through all the documents and some 4,000 surviving Conrad letters, including 1,500 never published. The blank spaces left in this portrait are probably there for good. Conrad covered his tracks carefully, destroying letters written to him, telling different...