Word: michaell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michael Kemp Knoxville, Tenn...
...chiefly of six Cabinet members, headed by Harris, to work out the policy. Harris and HEW Secretary Joseph Califano were immediately at loggerheads. He favored programs that would directly help poor people no matter where they live; she wanted to get money into distressed urban areas. Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, who was opposed to any idea that would reduce tax revenues, resisted proposed tax cuts or incentives for businesses located in distressed areas (Carter finally overruled him). To make matters worse, some participants regularly leaked early drafts of various proposals from the committee's working sessions, causing spirited...
...consequence. The Carter Administration now clearly recognizes that accelerating inflation is the biggest menace facing the economy. Yet action against it is being held up by a split between the President's closest advisers. On the one side are his economic counselors, led by Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, Chief Economic Adviser Charles Schultze and Federal Reserve Chairman William Miller. In the other camp are his political counselors, principally Vice President Walter Mondale, Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat and Press Secretary Jody Powell...
Champions of the core plan, including Harvard President Derek Bok, contend that students need more guidance in what they study. Says Government Professor Michael Walzer: "We can't function as a nutritionist who tells his patients that they are very intelligent and that there's a supermarket around the corner." Proponents also argue that even though the new requirements are more rigid than existing ones, they would still fill only a quarter of an undergraduate's schedule, the same as in the present system. That would leave the equivalent of two years for a major area...
...wants TV shows about blacks to turn into the stolidly heroic tableaux of socialist realism. The problem, says Michael Dann, a TV consultant and former head of programming at CBS, lies partly in the nature of drama and comedy. In dramatic series, good, responsible characters can be developed and portrayed by blacks, intermixing them with whites; in comedies, the producers are highly tempted merely to satirize black family life, exaggerating and distorting it. Every harassed, desiccated TV writer knows how to get a laugh with a bellowed insult or ostentatiously jivy dialect...