Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David Rockefeller of the Chase Manhattan Bank, A.W. Clausen of Bank of America and Robert Roosa of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. investment bankers. The final choice came down to Volcker and Bruce MacLaury, president of Brookings. When Carter phoned Volcker last Tuesday, the banker's main concern was to make sure that he and the President agreed on the independent role of the Federal Reserve. "I am satisfied on the basis of my conversations with the President that he has a good understanding of the problems," Volcker said later. His other consideration: moving from the New York Federal Reserve...
...from Michigan State University and attended Harvard Divinity School, is known in his southern Michigan district for opposing excessive regulation of the auto industry. Last year he helped defeat Carter's complex hospital cost-containment bill because he felt it was "a cure worse than the disease." Stockman's main goal is to reduce the role of the Government in society and to chip away at "the social pork barrel?the tremendous pressure of parochial, narrowly defined interests...
...nonacademic staff. "I hope to see a Yale College with fewer students, a curriculum with fewer courses and more structured breadth, and a college seminar system that engages retired faculty so that their dignity and wisdom and expertise are not lost to us all," says Giamatti. Another main concern: the stifling Government interference that accompanies financial aid and research grants. Notes Giamatti: "Private institutions will be forced to become more adept at pressuring for their principles...
...Nicholas Henderson, new British Ambassador to Washington, on changing customs: "Now, I see, the main sport is jogging. When I served here before, the main sport was baiting President Truman...
...poor Jewish parents on New York City's Lower East Side, Burns started putting his act together when he was seven in the Peewee Quartet, a group of kids who sang for small change in neighborhood taverns. By the time he was 14 he had found his main prop-a seven-cent Ricoro cigar. "I'd go into one of those places where they would press your suit while you stood in your underwear. I'd put it on hot-I wouldn't bend my knees until it had cooled off-and walk down the street...