Word: formally
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Despite fears of some West German officials that Carter might make a gaffe in such an open forum, the town meeting showed that the President is more lucid and at ease in a conversational setting than when delivering formal speeches. From Berlin, Carter returned to Bonn, where his ability to argue persuasively across a table was to be tested in a tough forum: the two-day meeting of seven Western leaders seeking ways to stabilize the world economy. And if, after the Berlin visit, Helmut Schmidt was not yet Carter's warmest friend, he could hardly help having been...
...Rand Daily Mail was not alone in decrying the death. Member of Parliament Helen Suzman, a critic of both Kruger and the administration, called for the police minister's resignation. Kruger brushed this aside. He scheduled a formal inquest into Tabalaza's death, at which Tabalaza's family can be present. In addition, said Kruger, "as far as I can ascertain, the police are putting bars on those windows right...
...past two years. All this fits Miller's ideas so well that there is speculation that he and Carter have struck a bargain under which the Administration practices tax-and-spending restraint and Miller refrains from a stern hold-down on credit. Miller and Carter have no formal deal but a tacit understanding to roughly that effect...
...formal duties are daunting enough. Eager though he is to promote a steady 4% growth, Miller vows that he will not pour out enough money "to validate the present inflation"?that is, to make credit available to anyone for whatever purpose. If he does, he says, "you will have runaway inflation and double-digit interest rates." If he holds the growth of money supply within his target range of 4% to 6½%, Miller thinks, growth will continue while inflation will run out of monetary fuel. But there is always a chance that growth will suffer instead...
...formal training for determining how much money the economy needs about equals his knowledge of Czech roads. But he speaks with an assurance that might seem like egotism -if it were not for all those stories around Textron of Miller riding the bus to work, lunching at his desk on soup and crackers and occasionally doing a job himself that a subordinate should have done. Instead, Miller combines a casual openness with almost supreme self-confidence. Says Textron Senior Vice President John B. Henderson: "It does not occur to him that there is anything he cannot...