Word: howards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrat James Abourezk, for example, was miffed at being cut out of White House-Congress meetings trying to resolve the question of deregulating natural gas prices. California Republican Sam Hayakawa had fired off a letter to Carter complaining about a wide variety of Administration foreign policy moves. Nevada Democrat Howard Cannon wanted to tack onto the Panama treaty a relatively minor reservation. Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke was pushing some technical changes. All were threatening to cast negative votes...
...hideaway, near Kendale Lakes. There the ambassador and other Torrijos aides explained the minimum conditions they would require of the Senate for acceptance of the treaties. The role of Rogers meshed with the needs of the prime treaty strategists in the Senate, including Democratic Leader Robert Byrd, Republican Leader Howard Baker, Democratic Whip Alan Cranston and the treaty floor manager, Frank Church, who wanted firsthand information on Panamanian feelings...
...Developers' costs for land, labor and maintenance have gone up far faster than rents. Result: apartments are being converted into owner-occupied condominiums, thus removing them from the rental market, or condominiums are being built and sold at high prices to realize a quick return on investment. Says Howard Ruby, chairman of R. & B. Development Co. in Los Angeles: "Rents are still too low." Daniel Packard, an executive with Mayer Construction Co., which last year built 40% of the apartments in Southern California, predicts that his company may go out of the apartment business by 1980. Says...
...Girl Friday. Of the two Howard Hawks pictures playing around this weekend, this is the equally triumphant. In his man's world, Hawks and his screenwriter Charles Lederer twisted the tension in Hecht and MacArthur's wildman farce "The Front Page" by turning Hildy Johnson into a woman, and one who was trying to excise herself from the male society she had tailored herself into. She can't do it. Hecht and MacArthur's play proved that it was not indestructable when Billy Wilder made it move like a sludge barge. "His Girl Friday" is louder and faster than...
...Howard S. Pearlman...