Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...James Schlesinger, the intelligent but somewhat arrogant Secretary of Energy. He will be replaced by yet another sometime Georgian, Charles W. Duncan Jr., who was the president of the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company before becoming the Deputy Secretary of Defense...
...landed at an Israeli army post, and Brown went to a phone to talk with his deputy secretary in Washington. As soon as Brown finished his conversation, someone asked him if he intended to cut his trip short and return immediately to the Pentagon. "No," he said flatly. "Charles Duncan is there." Last week that trusted deputy was named to a higher post: Secretary of Energy, succeeding James Schlesinger...
Last week TIME Chief of Correspondents Richard L. Duncan interviewed President Lopez Portillo at his official residence, Los Pinos. Excerpts from the interview...
...point Biographer Lytton Strachey wrote to Economist Maynard Keynes of his "adoration" for Painter Duncan Grant, little knowing that Keynes would soon make Grant his lover. Grant later lived with Painter Vanessa Bell; when she bore their child, the happy event was cheered not only by Keynes but by Vanessa's absentee husband, Art Critic Clive Bell, and her former lover, Critic-Painter Roger...
...Excessive Government regulations that have forced companies to spend cash not on new labor-saving and productive machines but on costly antipollution, safety and health equipment. Coal mining has been particularly hurt. Says Tom Duncan, head of the Kentucky Coal Association, a group of mine operators: "The man mining the coal is probably more productive than ever before, but now you've got one man carrying away possibly explosive coal dust, one or two men bolting roofs, one doing this thing and one doing that." In Kentucky, for example, productivity has dropped from 23.6 tons of coal mined...