Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crisis had seemed resolved the week before, when it was decided that White House Barber Milton Pitts would work alone in a basement shop in the West Wing, while White House Hair Stylists Yves and Nancy Graux would move to a new salon (to be refurbished at a cost of $9,000) in the Old Executive Office Building. Now those salon plans have been scrapped, and the Grauxes dismissed...
...Barber Milton Pitts returned to snip White House personnel on Tuesdays and Thursdays (Reagan gets clipped alone every two weeks), while Beauticians Yves and Nancy Graux coiffed on Wednesdays and Fridays. Unfortunately, this arrangement left everyone with emotional split ends. Beauticians and barber feuded over customers' chairs; maintenance workers had to move a different one into position each day. Against the Grauxes' wishes, Pitts had the shampooing sink lowered two whole inches. The Grauxes, meanwhile, suspected Pitts of watering down their shampoo and demanded better locks for their cabinets. That was all the snipping the White House could...
...Bimonthly Chocolate News, published by Milton Zelman and printed on brown, chocolate-scented paper, brings some 15,000 subscribers ($9.95 yearly) all the news of the chocolate world that's fit to eat, including chocolate tobacco and chocolate chili...
Shultz's one major conflict at Chicago came when he banned the use of loudspeakers at a rally against the Viet Nam War. When Edward Levi, the university's president, overruled him, Shultz resigned. His friends on the faculty, including conservative Economist Milton Friedman, pressured him to reconsider. Levi ranks among Shultz's admirers. Says he: "George knows how to deal with people. He is an inspirational individual...
...battle gracefully. For example, he had strongly advocated a "steady-as-she-goes" economic policy and urged Nixon not to attempt any radical fixes for stagnation and inflation. In 1971 Nixon suddenly imposed a new economic program that included wage and price controls. As a monetarist disciple of Milton Friedman, Shultz was strongly opposed. Nevertheless, he dutifully supported the program and was soon given responsibility for enforcing its cost-of-living guidelines...