Word: mente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House has never seen any thing to beat it. Where the powerful and the privileged usually dine, a buffet is laid on for members of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Where Casals once played, the entertain ment is a sort of tribal rite in which the guests whoop it up to a Texas honky-tonk beat. The placid evening air is pierced by a singer's plangent...
...that would bar forced retirement in the private sector until age 70 and eliminate the mandatory retirement at that age that now applies to all federal employees. A Senate subcommittee headed by New Jersey Democrat Harrison A. Williams is writing similar legislation. President Carter says he supports the retire-ment-at-70 cause in principle, and the enactment of some form of the Pepper bill this year seems almost certain...
...mortgages- they lose control over the information forever. They have no legal right to inspect most private files to contest or correct them. Nor can they prevent the records from being shared among banks, credit bureaus and insurance companies, or shown to employers. or turned over to law enforce ment agencies. Says Douglas Lea, counsel to the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights: "Privacy is power. What we're really talking about is whether the Government and other large organizations will have power over the individual." Warns California Congressman Barry Goldwater Jr.: "With out a sense of privacy, the Bill...
Concentrators complain of a feeling of impotence as they witness the emergence of such trends, saying that the absence of fulltime tenured faculty members in Afro--coupled with Southern's alleged refusal to formally meet with students--deny concentrators the kind of access to the depart- ment's decision making process as mandated in Afro's charter. The issue of full-time tenured Afro faculty opens up still another Pandora's box of troubles in the department, controversies that can be reduced to two basic developments: the introduction of joint tenure appointments in Afro over the last few years...
...coaxed the Carter group into allowing seven cameras in the theater to provide closeups, zoom shots and split-screen lens movement that may help animate Ford's wooden image. He is being coached on certain words that give him trouble. He tends, for example, to say "judg-uh-ment," stretching the word into three syllables. None of this worries his close friend Senator Robert Griffin very much: "People don't expect much from Ford and that will be a real advantage. Nixon was supposed to be a super debater, and look what happened...