Word: give
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Finally, Congress has less reason than ever to give the President what he wants because his support continues to crumble. During the recess, Arizona Congressman Morris Udall won applause whenever he told constituents that Carter should be given the benefit of the doubt, but he found that the same audiences favored Ted Kennedy over Carter by two to one. Democratic Congressman Dave Obey discovered that most of his Wisconsin constituents doubted that Carter would be reelected, though many of them wished he could be. Said Obey: "The people have not decided whether Carter is being worked over as a good...
...insider recently. "He has difficulty comprehending the significance of important issues. He is certainly not presidential material." According to such critics, Mondale is "lazy," taking afternoon naps in his office and tending to go home at 5 p.m. Complains a White House aide: "Fritz has no staying power. You give him an assignment, an area to oversee, and after a few months he loses interest." The same staffer insists that Mondale never pushes contrary ideas on the President. "Jimmy would love to get a good argument out of him, but every time we think Fritz is going...
...leaders and new connections give the I.R.A. enough muscle to risk a long planned series of hits against members of the British royal family. The assassination of Lord Mountbatten last month, says McMullen, was only the first. Future targets include Prince Philip, Princess Margaret and Princess Anne. McMullen predicts bombings of both Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, among other royal residences...
...reason for this Washington rite of fall is that if an agency does not spend its full appropriation by Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year, the money remaining is returned to the Treasury. That could give Congress the idea that the agency's appropriation was too large in the first place and lead to a reduction the following year. Says former Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal: "More money is wasted in the Federal Government in the last two months of the budget year than in the previous ten months...
...teams exchanged touchdowns again in the final 15 minutes. Husky Rob Gardner intercepted a pass and ran it 75 yards to give N.U. a final tally of 19 points...