Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...message places the President in something of a bind. If he cuts taxes heavily without slashing spending, he risks adding to inflation. He has already modified a proposed $25 billion income tax cut, and a shaky deal seemed to be shaping up on Capitol Hill last week for a less inflationary $15 billion reduction. Even so, the projected federal deficit would still be $53 billion, give or take a few billion, and the President declared last week: "Someone has got to hold the line on the budget, and I am determined to do so." To show that he means business...
...survey portrays a President in considerable trouble on a wide variety of issues (see chart) as he approaches the halfway mark of his first term. Of the respondents, 37% say they think less well of him now than when he first took office; only 11% think better of him. Moreover, Carter's image of trust has blurred. While 46% think he is a leader who can be trusted, 49% have doubts about...
...verdict: the Mormon will is a fake. Since no other will has been located, Hughes' dozens of relatives will now be the main beneficiaries of his estate. Once worth at least $2.3 billion, it dwindled during his final drug-plagued years, by one estimate, to $169 million-or less...
Even West German officials, who have in the past taken a more jaundiced view of Carter's leadership than most Western allies, seemed a little reassured. Said one of the Annapolis speech: "It was more measured, more thoughtful and more balanced, less preachy and moralizing." Added another: "Now, it seems that the Brzezinski school has won and the President is following that line...
This has been caused largely by Schlesinger's unavoidable preoccupation with the energy bill. The more his attention has been diverted by it, the less time he has had to begin moving his department off dead center. As Schlesinger told TIME Washington Correspondent Don Sider: "Sure, no question about it, the dual track we've been pressing ahead on has resulted in some distraction from our underlying objectives. Most of my time has had to be devoted to the legislative goals, and less of it to the internal management matters that I prefer. We have a great deal...