Word: feo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hand on. I don't do these things to others, and I require the same of them." That stands up as well as an epitaph for a good, cranky and singular man, but he himself would not have chosen it. John Wayne preferred an old, simple Mexican saying: "Feo, fuerte y formal" (He was ugly, he was strong, he had dignity...
John Wayne, actor, on what he wants on his tombstone: "Three short, simple Spanish words: 'Feo, fuerte y formal.' They mean 'Ugly, strong and with human dignity...
...been too busy fighting fires to pull itself together. Meanwhile he will have to fight bureaucratic battles against people who want to trim away the sweeping power that Simon enjoyed; some staffers at the White House and Office of Management and Budget, for instance, want to phase out the FEO's fuel-allocation program. And Sawhill will have to do all this at the age of 37, after a mere 13 months of Government service...
...task fazes Sawhill, he scarcely shows it. One of his top priorities will be the daunting job of putting some content into "Project Independence," a slogan for an as yet unformed program to give the U.S. some degree of energy self-sufficiency by 1980. Immediately after being named FEO chief, he pledged to have a final blueprint for the project on President Nixon's desk by Nov. 1. He readily admits that morale among the FEO's more than 2,000 employees plunged when the Arab oil embargo was lifted in March and the agency lost the crisis...
...wanted to get into public service, and when he was recruited by the Office of Management and Budget in April 1973, he not only cheerfully took a $60,000 salary cut but also changed his voting registration from Democrat to Republican. Seven months later, Simon chose him as deputy FEO chief...