Word: felts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...authority to coordinate policies and pull policymakers into line. The President began concentrating on only the most important issues, dropping the original every-thing-at-once strategy that had spread him far too thin and exasperated Congress. As U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young put it, "In the early days Carter felt that he could force Congress and history and everything else to work according to his flow chart. He has learned that it doesn't happen that...
...reckoning he achieved only "41.3% success." As evidence Kahn offered a departmental rejection slip: "The involved document, though clothed in diplomatic costume, is no more than a transmittal note and is, thus, of no decisional significance." "There was nothing I could do but cry," Kahn lamented. "I felt so lonely and futile...
...have developed individualized programs that use many of the techniques of crisis intervention, assertiveness training, consciousness raising. In Grand Island, Neb., for example, Evelyn Spiehs, 49, widowed last spring, attends a weekly rap session with six other women, goes to larger career-guidance workshops and receives legal counseling. "It felt good to know they understood," she says, "and didn't just feel sorry for me. I wouldn't have been able to face anything yet without them...
...mysteries about the collapse of the talks on the eve of the Dec. 17 deadline was just why the Begin government dug in so hard against the Sadat proposals. Some Israelis speculate that in addition to his concerns about his country's security, Begin might have felt a need to show toughness at a time when his personal popularity has been slipping. Indeed, only a day before Begin rejected the Egyptian proposals, he had received the results of a new poll showing a decline in his popularity from 68.2% approval in October to just 48.9% in December...
...excellent likeness, swelled head and all," pronounced Kissinger last week. He didn't even mind that Wills had "painted out the scepter." In fact, quipped the former Secretary of State, the unveiling was "one of my most fulfilling moments. Until they do Mount Rushmore." Artist Wills, too, felt fulfilled. Unlike Cox, who was paid only $1,500 in expenses for his rejected picture, Wills will collect a fee of $10,500. He will be the last painter to be so lucky. Jimmy Carter has requested that in the future, all official portraits be color photographs...