Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Congress, blacks and liberals, continuing suspicion from the business community. But in the White House family quarters, all continues serene. In fact, the Carters are so relentlessly just-plain-folks that outsiders usually ask, "Are they for real?" The answer is yes, to the extent that reality can exist in the White House, with its 70 or so servants and other household staff, its almost weekly state dinners, its constant reminders of vast power. TIME Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angela spent some time with the First Lady, and provides this latest situation report from the home front...
...peace treaties with all the Arab nations and the Israelis being involved together. I can't anticipate now what our position would be. I would try to marshal the support of the leader, first of all. Secondly, the opinion of his people back home, the constituencies that might exist in our own country that would have influence around the world, opinion that exists in the European Community, and in the Arab nations as well...
...time, Pepper-plan advocates make some telling economic and social arguments for later retirement. A retired couple, both 65, who live solely on Social Security payments, must scrape by on a bare-bones average income of $400 a month, or $4,800 a year. Some 3.3 million elderly people exist on incomes that are below the individual poverty level of $2,730 a year. By allowing these people to work, the pro-Pepper argument goes, some of the pressure on the strapped Social Security system would be relieved...
...limits on man's aspirations, others do not, and the search should be for where biology pushes mankind and where man can resist the push." He also admits that "genetic constraints evolved during the millions of years of prehistory, under conditions that to a large extent no longer exist." It would be foolish, he says, to rear as many healthy children as possible in today's crowded world, no matter what the genetic push...
...after several groups of Chinese scientists had visited the U.S. and toured Rockefeller, which counts 16 Nobel laureates among its alumni and faculty. The eleven American scientists visited five major Chinese cities, half a dozen universities and nine of the country's 100 research institutes, many of which exist in name only. With few exceptions, they found their hosts open and eager to accommodate them. "We didn't see everything," says Rodney Nichols, a Rockefeller vice president. "But we saw enough to get the picture...