Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government last week as Jimmy Carter put the finishing touches on the fiscal 1980 budget that he will submit to Congress on Jan. 22. Budget battles between the White House and Congress are an annual event, but this year the President, Democratic leaders and most Republicans are in rare general agreement. They know that there is a conservative tide running in the country and that federal spending must be checked. So what is the fight? It is over just how to split those scarce dollars, and it is shaping up as a delicate exercise in political intrigue...
...said General Alexander M. Haig, 54, in announcing last week that he will resign in June as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and retire from the U.S. Army. His sudden announcement to quit was something of a surprise to President Carter, who last fall had asked Haig to stay for another year in the NATO post he has held since 1974. It stirred speculation that he is getting ready to run for the Republican presidential nomination...
Haig was one of the fastest rising officers in the Army during the Nixon Administration, going from lieutenant colonel to four-star general in a little over five years, largely because of his performance as top aide to Henry Kissinger on the National Security Council. Then, in the spring of 1973, Haig succeeded H.R. Haldeman as White House Chief of Staff. When Nixon became increasingly preoccupied with Watergate, Haig served at times as a sort of surrogate President and was one of the few high-level Nixon aides to survive the crisis without damaging his career...
Sanford J. Rosen, San Francisco lawyer for the victims, termed the out-of-court settlement "a great victory." On the other side, Sylvester Del Corso, adjutant general of the Guard in 1970, insisted: "There is no apology. We expressed sorrow and regret just as you would express condolences to the family of someone who died." But why settle now? If the trial had continued, predicted Ohio Attorney General William J. Brown, "we could lose this case." Said Arthur Krause, whose daughter Allison was killed: "I'm tired. I can't sit in a courtroom and look at those...
...General Services Administration weighed in with yet another report, entitled "Economic Factors Associated with Paper Sizes." It claimed, among other things, that the larger size would reduce by 5% the number of times a secretary needs a second page to finish a letter. Each second page, it went on, costs 4.60 (including charges for the secretary's retirement benefits and depreciation of her chair and her typewriter...