Word: host
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President spent much of his week cementing relations with Congressmen, Democrats as well as Republicans. He was host at a series of meetings in the Oval Office with legislators, both individually and in small groups, to discuss pending bills. Twice he dropped in on his former colleagues on Capitol Hill. The first time was when he paid tribute to Mike Mansfield, who set a record last week for longevity as Senate majority leader: more than 13½ years. Said Ford: "It proves that people who can negotiate survive better than those who take a flat, adamant attitude." Later...
...budget kept rising, from $2 billion when he took office to $8.6 billion when he left, he devised a novel way of paying for his programs. Rather than going to the balky state legislature or to the voters, who might turn him down, he set up a host of quasi-independent agencies-the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the Urban Development Corporation, the Housing Finance Agency-that issued bonds on their own initiative and repaid them with fees collected from users of the facilities that were constructed. "The greatest system ever invented!" he exclaimed...
...Cavett as bright as he seems? A serious man in an unserious business? This book sets out to prove that he is. It is cast in the semispecious form of a talk show with Cavett the guest. His host-interlocutor is Christopher Porterfield, who was once Cavett's roommate at Yale and now acts as executive producer for Cavett's production company...
...average fan, and most of you will be spectators for the majority of your time here, there is a strange attraction to the decrepit facilities that host Harvard's battles with the dreaded...
...long-running Jeopardy!, which requires contestants to supply the questions to tough answers, is marred mainly by Host Art Fleming's incessant administration of extreme unctiousness. Match Game 74, daytime's top-rated show, has hokey-jokey questions (What did the cannibal say when he finished off Euell Gibbons?) but is graced by the relaxed presence of Gene Rayburn, the most palatable of the hosts...