Word: michael
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Family Exercise. Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, meanwhile, told the International Monetary Conference in Tokyo that the U.S. faces a "temporary" trade deficit of $23 billion this year because of last winter's high energy demands. Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland, heading for the World Food Conference in Manila, will pledge the Carter Administration's support for increased world food reserves but urge various nations to do whatever they can to increase their own storage capacity. Rosalynn Carter, at the same time, undertakes an unusual exercise in the use of a President's family to deal with substantive...
...characters in Between the Lines come in pairs. Michael, a handsome writer selfishly intent on finishing his first novel, is married to vulnerable-looking Laura (Gwen Welles). Their opposite numbers are Harry (John Heard) and Abbie (Lindsay Crouse), a writer and photographer whose on-again, off-again relationship composes thz film's central thread. Heard is so blondly good-looking, gifted and vulnerable, that it's hard at times to understand Crouse's reluctance to stay paired up with him. The chief explanation the film offers is that Abbie is in some ways Michael's counterpart--as laden with egotism...
...Eikenberry), the secretary, David (Bruce Kirby), the cub reporter, and Frank (Jon Korkes), the conscientious editor who is undercut repeatedly by his boss. What they all have in common, besides their affiliation with what Max calls the "Monongahela Backwash," is the low-keyed energy with which they are played. Michael, Laura, Harry et al seem like real people, even though they don't always seem like real journalists...
After 20 hours of tortured debate, the house voted 162 to 52 to shrink itself by one-third. The senate is expected to give final approval to the bill this week, and Governor Michael Dukakis to sign it into law soon thereafter...
...permanently shut out of the economic system, as do many of their counterparts in Europe, nor do most of them feel alienated from the work ethic. Thousands of New York City youths stood in line overnight last month to sign up for federally funded summer jobs. As M.I.T. Economist Michael Piore puts it, "In Europe, the young get mad about unemployment. Here, they just get scared...