Word: informativeness
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...situation, he must maneuver. Last week he caused a howl of outrage on Capitol Hill by cutting $289 million for 19 water-control projects from the proposed budget for fiscal 1978. That was bad enough, but Carter staffers failed to reach all the key figures on the Hill to inform them before the story broke. Arizona Congressman Mo Udall, who heard about the move from a reporter, called Carter's decision "zero-based budgeting gone mad." Western Governors were equally irate. Said Colorado's Governor Richard Lamm: "This is not the way to win friends and influence people...
...separate protest delegations, numbering 17 persons, repeatedly requested that Helen McCue, the Boston office manager, call the insurance company's main office in Hartford, Conn. and inform the company of the protest...
...will the American people be better informed if you do not inform them?" he barked at the journalists...
Among the requirements of the recent laws: creditors must spell out interest, financing and other charges. A department store, for example, must inform buyers that the interest charge of l½% a month on the unpaid balance in a revolving-credit account amounts to 18% a year. Debtors may withhold payment of a bill they believe to be incorrect, and the creditor must explain the billing within 90 days. A credit cardholder is liable for only $50 in purchases that someone else charges on a lost or stolen card. If a merchant or lender turns down an application for credit...
...routine for Andrei Sakharov, foremost builder of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize and leader of the Russian human rights movement. On that day, a friend had brought a report of yet another arrest, and it was Sakharov's self-imposed duty to inform Western journalists, who would tell the world...