Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...killed. He and Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joe Califano decided to resuscitate the hospital cost containment bill, which was suppressed in committee last summer by pressure from the medical lobby. Carter probably figures he has nothing to lose politically since the public is angry about inflation in general and about soaring medical costs in particular. In August, hospital costs rose .9%, second only to the 1.1% leap in gasoline prices. Carter originally asked for a 9% ceiling on annual hospital cost increases. Compromise bills have now been proposed, but all of them face an uphill fight. Complains a congressional...
...beginning of the campaign, his most likely successor seemed to be Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley, 37, a populist in polo shirt and plaid pants. But he lost last week to Forrest ("Fob") James Jr., 44, a former star halfback at Auburn University '55 and a millionaire manufacturer of sporting gear. James' victory showed that Jimmy Carter's tactics can still pay off, at least in the South. His lavishly financed $2.5 million campaign played up his role as an outsider with no ties to the political system. That image was reinforced by Walker & Associates...
...rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly, immediately after an attack on the Camp David agreements, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko suddenly fell silent, then leaned against the side of the speaker's desk. Two diplomats anxiously started forward, grasped Gromyko under the arms and helped him off the podium. For a time it seemed as though the 69-year-old veteran might be nearing the end of a career that has kept him at the head of the Soviet foreign ministry for an astonishing 22 years, but after a medical checkup and an hour's rest...
...minutes record only rare instances of dissent. On Sept. 12, 1977, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Patricia Harris told Attorney General Griffin Bell that "she had read an early draft of the Bakke brief and that, in her opinion, it needed considerable improvement." But there were no recorded dissents during several meetings last fall when Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall incorrectly calculated that the odds were against a coal strike, or on Nov. 7, 1977, when Treasury Secretary Blumenthal argued that the position of the dollar abroad "is not as bad as it may appear here...
Caught in a Pentagon crossfire, a general resigns...