Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...host of issues confront a President who has yet to get his job in focus...
Perhaps the biggest challenge of all for Carter is how to manage the presidency and exercise power. For much of his first year in office, his Administration has remained strangely out of focus, suggesting that Carter may not be sure what he wants to do. The powerful interest groups that make up the Democratic Party are urging him to be a big-spending, activist President, yet the country is growing more conservative and resentful of interference from Washington. To escape this dilemma would require transcendental leadership of a kind that Carter has not yet demonstrated...
...Economy With unemployment high, the dollar low and the stock market in distress, the economy will be Carter's sternest trial and the main focus of his policies this year. The $25 billion tax cut that he will propose this month is designed to revive business confidence, spark more spending on plant and equipment and head off a slowdown in growth that many economists expect late in 1978. Meanwhile, inflation shows signs of moving up again, fueled partly by measures that Carter either initiated or supported, including higher farm price supports and a steeper minimum wage...
...Dallas?and then put them in uniforms with so little cloth. Nearly 700 women try out each fall for the 36 low-neckline, high-kicking jobs. While the Chosen Ones receive little pay ($15 per game), they get more air time than many a television star as cameramen focus in when anything short of a touchdown is happening onfield...
Perhaps most of all, Miller is simply a manager, interested in results rather than doctrine. He has said that it is a mistake to focus only on management of total supply and demand in the economy; policymakers also need to develop programs for specific trouble spots. Though Miller was quickly criticized by Senate Banking Chairman William Proxmire for lacking sufficient banking experience to run the nation's money supply, those who know Miller say the charges are foolish. Says New York Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn, who knows Miller well: "I think that he knows more about finance than most...