Word: dustup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dustup had its serious side: the increasingly acerbic Carter-Kennedy rivalry is coloring important national issues. Last week's example was the key question of how the nation can extend adequate health care to every American at something resembling an affordable cost...
Responding to continuing cries from the West, the Japanese were already taking some steps to reduce their trade surplus before the latest dustup. For instance, in 1977 as in '76, Tokyo will limit steel exports to the Community to 1.4 million tons. But at Common Market headquarters in Brussels, these steps have been viewed as too little, too late. In November, over lunch in Brussels, European Commissioner Finn Olav Gundelach warned Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Bunroku Yoshino that Japan would have to submit a comprehensive plan to right the trade imbalance or face retaliation. The Europeans, for example, could...
...Another dustup occurred after Carter, backed by a U.S. Information Agency poll, claimed the U.S. had lost prestige abroad. Ford retorted by noting the recent U.S. sweep of Nobel Prizes. A group of U.S. Nobel prizewinners thereupon attacked Ford. Harvard Chemist George Kistiakowsky spoke for ten Nobel laureates in arguing that Ford had been too stingy with his budget "to encourage the growth of American science...
...lied to us. I don't think we should bail those liars out." Governor Hugh Carey told congressional leaders that the plan had virtually no hope of succeeding because of legal snarls; indeed, Big Mac Chairman Felix Rohatyn called it a "20-to-l shot." Even so, the dustup further damaged New York's already bankrupt credibility...
...relaxed view. "The press has a fairly high betrayal threshold," says Eugene C. Patterson, editor and president of the St. Petersburg Times. "We're not a bunch of little Nells who were innocently seduced by the President. It's just the first time that Ford had a dustup with the press. There's bound to be more." Adds Emmet Dedmon, editorial director of the Field newspapers: "A honeymoon can last only until a President's first major decision...