Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wants the man most qualified to take over the office. He also is searching for someone who can fill gaps in his own experience and run strong in areas of the country where Carter has not-for example, the Far West and Northeast. The two candidates who best fit that strategy, in the minds of professional politicians, are both Senators: Minnesota's Walter Mondale, 48, and Idaho's Frank Church, 51. Mondale, a cool, skillful legislator and campaigner, would provide Carter wide bridges to labor and liberals, where the Georgian is still uneasily feeling his way. Mondale...
Hale Champion, financial vice president, supports Bok's contention that Harvard's days of territorial acquisition are largely over. "We are in a steady state," he explains. "We will now try to utilize our existing space, and to reconvert old space to fit our needs, but we are not expansionary in character...
...annual reports. His 1973-74 report analyzed the fate of the public policy program at the Kennedy School, whose dean, Don K. Price, is retiring this year, and next year's report, Bok says, will address a series of contemporary problems in health and medicine and fit into his search for the next dean of the Medical School...
...Ford Administration, anxious to keep long strikes from disrupting the recovery, is keeping a nervous eye on the rubber situation. Yet mediators have not seen fit to call round-the-clock negotiations, let alone recommend that the Administration ask for a Taft-Hartley Act injunction that would stop the strike for 80 days. Such injunctions are permitted legally only if a strike damages the national "health and safety" and, says one federal official, "we would have a hell of a time making a case" for an injunction...
Editors might hesitate to describe as voyeurism the public tastes they cater to, but they do constantly broaden their standards of what is fit to print. The direction is mostly downhill, or toward more freedom, depending on your point of view. After all, women-Congressmen's girl friends, Presidents' bedmates-now gleefully sign book contracts to describe conduct that once would have earned them a scarlet A as a branded adulteress...