Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout most of Chief Counsel, Dash's principal adversary seems not to be Nixon or the White House, but Baker. In essence, Dash accuses Baker of serving as a tool of the White House while trying to maintain a facade of non-partisanship and professing a desire to get to the truth. Baker, he says, wanted to keep the public hearings short and start them early, before Dash felt ready to go before the television cameras with his evidence. Dash also suspects that Baker was behind Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott's move to postpone John Dean's testimony...
...Worth, Dallas, San Francisco and Flint, Mich., drew rousing, cheering crowds. He responded with some of his most effective, eloquent oratory since the campaign had begun. Even some last-minute Ford campaign ads attacking Carter's record as Governor of Georgia and misrepresenting his position on taxes failed to maintain the momentum that the President had been building...
...standing committee on non-departmental instruction would maintain the non-departmental courses that no longer fit into the proposed Gen Ed scheme...
...Sevareid, furrowed brows and all, concluding glumly that it was all old stuff. In the final debate, Bill Moyers got it better: both sides, he suggested, punted a lot. On public television, Sander Vanocur called the debates "an unnatural act between two consenting candidates in public." The effort to maintain neutrality on the air apparently permitted a jaded response to the whole event, but not a comparative judgment of the two candidates' performances. Having been told they had been watching a contest, people naturally wanted to hear who won; their favorite commentators were not about to say. Obviously these...
Price Jump. Also, OPEC'S stated justification for a price boost is that it must maintain favorable "terms of trade" -that is, catch up with inflation in the industrial world, so that the selling price of a barrel of crude will buy as large a quantity of Western imports as it did in, say, early 1974. To oil consumers that argument seems extremely specious: the early 1974 terms of trade were achieved after a 400% jump in oil prices, and that leap caused no small part of the Western inflation that OPEC complains about. Even so, John Lichtblau director...