Word: mail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first they seemed to be in over their heads-way over. Jimmy Carter's aides and assistants ignored the barons on Capitol Hill. They irked newsmen, bureaucrats and other supplicants by letting their phones jingle unanswered. Mail piled up. Key sub-Cabinet posts went unfilled for weeks, and ambassadorial appointments have only just begun to trickle out. Meanwhile, the White House staff that Carter had promised to slash by 30% has grown by nearly 30%, to 655 names...
...appropriate." Much of the confusion has been ironed out-with the help of all those added staffers and simply more time to get on top of the job. Meanwhile, a backlog of 314,000 unanswered letters has been cleared up, and the extra staff helps to handle the mail load, which averages 75,000 letters a week...
...Stein said ward leaders chose not to mail notices about the caucuses to Harvard Democrats because "so few were registered in the wards...
Nuestro's initial press run was an ambitious 180,000 copies, prompted by a staggering 12.4% return on a subscription mail-out-far above the 2% to 3% achieved by most prospective magazines. Advertising is thin, only 4.6 pages for the first issue. But with his solid capitalization, Lopez will be comfortably solvent for months ahead. "Nuestro will succeed," he concludes. "Latinos have been ready for this magazine for years...
...tyranny." A leader of Miami's Cuban exiles, he met with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in February to voice opposition to U.S. détente with Cuba. · Died. Edward J. Barrett, 77, powerful Illinois Democratic factotum for four decades until his 1973 federal conviction for bribery, mail fraud and tax evasion; in Chicago. Barrett, who served as Illinois State Treasurer and Secretary of State in the '30s and '40s, became Cook County clerk in 1955, succeeding his longtime crony, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley...