Word: efforts
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Very Disappointing. In a sharply worded memo, Nixon termed the economizing effort "very disappointing" and ordered another try. A prime target, of course, is the Defense Department. Nixon wants Defense Secretary Melvin Laird to sweat $2 billion out of the $80 billion budget. In his first attempt, Laird managed to cut only $550 million. Nixon told him to try again, and this time Laird brought the reductions up to $1.1 billion, chiefly in "ground munitions," including the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system, which will take a $34 million...
...wracked by crises. Los Angeles Negroes (18% of the voters) united against Yorty for his failure to grapple with racial issues that have simmered since the 1965 Watts uprising. Though Yorty integrated city departments, Negroes were of the opinion that it was only a token effort...
...British ambassador presented his credentials in Moscow last week, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko told him that it was time to settle outstanding differences between Britain and Russia. Presumably that attitude extends to other countries in the West as well. Priority business with the West includes Russia's effort to negotiate an ABM truce with the U.S., reach a settlement of the Viet Nam war and prevent West Germany from ever becoming a nuclear power...
...bring about a settlement between Arabs and Israelis. There have been secret meetings in London between Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Jordan's King Hussein, who is scheduled to arrive this week in Washington. Last week representatives of the Big Four met in New York in an effort to succeed where others have failed...
...effort is to drive to the fullest extent those few talents that were given to me," the late David Smith once said. The brawny, Indiana-born metal worker was perhaps the most restless as well as the most gifted sculptor of an impatient nation and century. For 25 years, he labored to populate the fields of his "sculpture farm" near Bolton Landing in upper New York State with a dozen different species of welded totems, signposts, sentinels and ti tans. He was still pursuing at least five different styles when the pickup truck he was driving veered off the road...