Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Everybody accepts the fact that Presidents grow rich in office," says a university professor. Indeed, the President's salary is one of Mexico's best-kept secrets. Miguel Aleman Valdes, for example, made multimillion-dollar investments in Acapulco real estate that turned the Pacific Coast city into a famous tourist attraction...
...Ford Administration devised the measures that helped pull inflation down from 12.2% in 1974 to 4.8% when Jimmy Carter took office, is the most confident of the board members that stringent fiscal and monetary policies alone can work again. He predicts that if a firm hand is kept on the economy and the political leaders avoid the temptation to stimulate growth just to get elected, inflation will decline to perhaps 6% in 1981. No matter how high the cost of curbing the price plague, concludes Greenspan, some unpleasant medicine taken now will be less painful than other, tougher remedies forced...
...Wife Barbara, appeared in Cairo for the first time as part of a three-day bash to raise funds for Wafa Wal Amal, the rehabilitation center for the handicapped that is First Lady Jehan Sadat's favorite charity. Jehan and Barbara struck it off famously, but Sinatra kept mostly to himself until showtime. By then the sand near the Pyramids had been covered with 300 carpets for the comfort of guests who had paid up to $30,000 a table to hear him sing such golden oldies as The Lady Is a Tramp, Someone to Watch over...
...snail darter. When that failed, Baker resolutely pushed again, and Tellico was tacked onto a $10.8 billion energy and water appropriations bill. President Carter, on record as opposing the dam, faced a bitter choice. The bill reportedly contained no other pork barrels that he had fought, and it kept alive his Water Resources Council, an independent body that judges future projects. Moreover, the Endangered Species Act was due for congressional review, and a Tellico veto might leave it endangered. Carter also felt a need to build good will for upcoming legislative battles. So he signed the bill, saying: "I accept...
...case, Kissinger goes on, "Thieu's reaction guaranteed that the war would not end soon." Kissinger was barely back in Washington when the North Vietnamese, hoping to force Nixon's hand, went public. They broadcast the terms of the proposed treaty, which had been kept secret until then, and accused the U.S. of stalling on its implementation...