Word: longer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...James Schlesinger. "He feels shafted by Schlesinger," says a top presidential aide. The President believes that the Energy Secretary has shown insensitivity toward Iran and bollixed negotiations for Mexican gas by insulting Mexico's envoys. Carter no longer relies on Schlesinger alone for advice on energy policy. In preparing for his energy speech earlier this month, the President reached around the Energy Secretary and invited all Cabinet members to chip in with ideas. Last week. Carter named Domestic Adviser Stuart Eizenstat to head the Administration team that will lobby for the windfall profits tax-in Congress, and deliberately left...
...Harvard heavyweight crew, no longer, as Richard Nixon might have said, "a helpless, pitiful, giant," cruised back into its accustomed position as the nation's crew-to-beat with its victory in the San Diego Classic two weeks ago. Today, Brown takes the first shot at the best in the Crimson's home-opener in the Charles Basin...
...doctors claim that they are only asking for the city to fill present vacancies so they will no longer be forced to perform duties usually handled by nurses and lab technicians. "They haven't taken us at all seriously," Dr. Daphne Blackburn, one of the picketers, said yesterday. "They've looked upon us as a group of students instead of physicians," she added...
...last week's poll have given the assembly initiatives to follow-up for a long time to come. Pfeffer added. The poll shows strong student support (65 per cent) for an experimental, one-year 14 mealplan option, and a whopping 83 per cent of the ballots ask for longer library hours during reading period...
...more widely accepted Library of Congress system. But his decision was not rushed or unthinking. "Intellectually," he insists, "the old Widener system has certain advantages over the Library of Congress system." But he adds. "It had become a luxury to maintain a highly idiosyneratic system. One could no longer afford to keep it, even at Harvard...