Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...widely divided on what Carter should do to improve the economy: 42% want the Government to create jobs by putting money into projects such as railroads, schools and housing, but 48% favor cutting back on present spending and trying to balance the budget. At the same time, people hope the Government will somehow increase public services. Three-fifths would like Congress to enact national health insurance and a full-employment bill in which the Government would guarantee a job to everyone who wants to work...
...corporations have registered in Plains (cost: $3) in order to use the town's name on theie letterheads. A few outsiders, slick or not, have made more substantial investments. A group of Canadian investors recently purchased 190 acres of farm land outside town for $325,000. They hope to install a campground and amusement park. A Georgia representative of Holiday Inns has looked into building a small motel on the highway between Plains and Americus...
...hope of avoiding the sort of ambassador he had criticized during his campaign, Carter asked Florida Governor Reubin Askew to chair a 20-person panel that would review potential ambassadors. Its members include Democratic Elder Statesmen Dean Rusk and Averell Harriman, Republican William Scranton and a sprinkling of academics and authors. For the past month, panel members have been meeting at the State Department in great secrecy, sifting a list of 400 names submitted by members of Congress, the foreign policy community and Carter's staff. Key criteria: foreign experience, language skills and "special considerations," a category that includes...
...whisked to a dacha in Lenin Hills, just up the road from the one in which predecessor Henry Kissinger used to stay." As Vance's meetings with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev began, however, the atmosphere was expected to be considerably chillier. In fact, there was only limited hope in Washington that the trip would produce any real progress in curbing the nuclear arms race and coping with a score of other problematical issues...
...visiting committee system, the Overseers should re-examine the whole system instead of censoring a fragment of it. Even an excellent program at the GSD or elsewhere at Harvard can surely benefit from the advice of experts in the field. An arbitrary and publicity sensitive governing board cannot hope to accomplish much in the spirit of improvement. The Overseers' recent action has set an unfortunate precedent that should not become a pattern...