Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walking across the street toward his Tuesday press conference, Jimmy Carter listened intently as Jody Powell confirmed the taunting charges Ted Kennedy had made only a few hours earlier in New York City. Powell had just called Kennedy's office himself to check the exact words. Yes, the press secretary told the President, Kennedy had said the oil lobby intimidated Carter into "throwing in the towel" on decontrol without even "entering the ring." Yes, Kennedy had accused Carter of submitting a token windfall profits tax that was no more than a "transparent fig leaf over vast new corporate profits...
Motzfeldt, who led "Greenland for Greenlanders" demonstrations in Copenhagen in the 1960s, demanded full control of all resources, known and undiscovered. The Danes were shocked, but eventually agreed in principle, although the exact scope of the resource rights remains to be spelled out. "We are satisfied so far," Motzfeldt told TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs in Godthaab. "But we will not be pushovers for outsiders, Danes included. It is an exciting time. We must develop a modern society without ruining our environment and way of life...
...also impresses Pollster Ruth Clark of Yankelovich, Skelly & White, who conducted readership surveys in twelve cities, and will summarize her findings to newspaper editors at the A.S.N.E.'s annual convention in New York City this week. Clark thinks readers wanted to know not just the grisly facts and exact body counts of the Jonestown cult death in Guyana but also how the reporter felt, so they could "share his experience." Such an attitude violates all the classic instruction of crabby editors to young cub reporters not to "get in front of the story...
William G. Delahunt, Norfolk County district attorney, said yesterday investigators found the coins in a duffle bag and a fishing tackle box buried under pipes and debris in a South Shore community. He declined to give the exact location...
...called it off at the last minute. It got to be a big joke among my friends. But I like Paris. It wouldn't kill me if someone said I would be forced to live there the rest of my life." In Paris, Allen plans to do "the exact same things" he does at home: drift around, eat and go to movies. Or maybe he won't. "If I get my predictable anxiety attack," Allen adds, "I'll get on the next plane and come right back to New York...