Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's fight to check price rises runs directly counter to his second main challenge: making the U.S. less dependent on foreign oil. A rise in oil prices would probably cut consumption, but also would certainly increase inflation. "Good energy policy is not good economic policy," summed up White House Aide Hamilton Jordan. Added another adviser: "We've got to do what is in the best interests of the country-but it's damn hard to see how anything we do will be in the best interests of Jimmy Carter...
Curran will not be joining the main Justice Department investigation of possible violations of the banking laws by Lance. Now 18 months old, this probe reportedly is ready to produce indictments against the man that Carter made director of the Office of Management and Budget. However, Curran will be able to investigate Lance's role in the peanut loans...
...stood at her husband's side through a host of personal and political crises, including several of his transient flings with other women. In an interview last week with the magazine Stern, she attributed the impending divorce to "not just one reason but an accumulation of things." The main thing seemed to be Brandt's six-month-long involvement with Brigitte Seebacher, 32, a political assistant. Fumed former State Secretary Egon Bahr: "At Brandt's age, what nonsense...
Today U.S. foreign aid is a hodgepodge of programs with a muddle of purposes directed by a multitude of agencies. The main one is the Agency for International Development, and its chief, ex-Governor John Gilligan of Ohio, is leaving next month under pressure, in part because he offended too many people by trying to straighten out his department. AID is tangled up by more than 150 restrictive and sometimes contradictory congressional mandates. It is not astonishing that a program so confused within is so misunderstood on the outside...
...East/West's main competitor, Webb Co. of St. Paul, produces TWA's Ambassador, Northwest's Passages and Frontier's Frontiers. American, Delta and National handle their own publications...