Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sawhill was one of the leaders invited to Camp David for the series of conferences to discuss energy and Carter's leadership problems. The starting point of leadership in any area, Sawhill says, "is to set priority goals-a few, a very few, overarching goals-that cover many of the competing and conflicting issues. That's the only way to gain a consensus...
...authors of the Business School's recently released report on energy are meeting today with President Carter's top domestic advisor Stuart Eisenstadt to discuss the findings of their study...
...positions in 25 towns throughout Nicaragua, President Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza seemed in no hurry to fulfill predictions of his imminent demise. Despite the continuing international pressure that he resign, Somoza secretly flew to Guatemala to confer briefly with other military heads of state in Central America and, presumably, to discuss the resupply of his embattled National Guard...
Alas, his plight may have fallen upon sympathetic ears. A U.N. committee will discuss letting the diplomats use a pump in the building's basement so that they will be spared the gas-line woes of the natives...
...White Album is Didion's latest collection of these images--20 essays written from 1968 to 1978. It is a brilliant albeit occasionally disjointed collage of impressions, written with her customary journalistic eye for detail and infused with emotion. The essays discuss the '60s, portray Didion and others, and sketch California life with wit and deadly accuracy...