Word: interest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staff that he used to compare to the "spokes of the wheel," with himself at the hub. His original intention had been to give associates easy access to the Oval Office. Soon after the election, Press Secretary Jody Powell announced that Carter thought "it was not in his interest to have a single chief of staff," a title that had special political significance because the memory of Nixon Aide H.R. Haldeman was so fresh in the public mind. But the loose arrangement, almost inevitably, caused confusion. Jordan, a shrewd but erratic and disorganized executive, will settle all but the most...
...helped the Administration get the natural gas compromise bill through Congress last year−raising questions as to whether the chairman of the Fed should be getting into any subject as controversial as gas decontrol. But earlier this year, when the Administration tried to pressure him into raising interest rates, Miller flatly refused. Such high rates, he insisted, would be "unbecoming, unwise and unnecessary," and would run the risk of deepening the coming recession...
...arguing hard and voicing stinging criticism behind closed doors; out in public, however, he joins ranks and forcefully presents the majority position. But Miller can also be stubborn. Blumenthal discovered this last spring when he tried to lean hard on his old friend Bill to have the Fed raise interest rates. Concluding that Blumenthal was wrong, Miller balked; eventually Carter had to tell Blumenthal to ease up the pressure. Later Miller would sit calmly in his inordinately neat Fed office on Constitution Avenue, motion out the window toward the White House and say, "All's quiet on the western...
...book has all the style and plot interest of "As the World Turns." Each character has four important episodes--discovering sex in college, getting married, discovering problems with sex in marriage, and having kids. Each also has a quirk, a flaw in her otherwise perfect Radcliffe patina. Emily is neurotic, Daphne has epilepsy, Annabel likes sex and alcohol, and Chris is obsessed with a homosexual. By the time they get back to Cambridge for their reunion, these tiny flaws have created major messes...
...says a Fred Astaire movie in Boston Kindled her interest in tap dancing. At first she sought out old tap dancers becuase of her interest in the history of the dance but soon she wanted to perform herself. Now she plans to establish a foundation "to preserve, promote, and perform tap dancing," she says...