Word: mishmash
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...swelled from nine to 18. There are now, for example, special programs for out-of-work West Coast lumber mill hands, ones to locate jobs for unemployed railroad workers, and a new program to find employment for airline employees who are let go as a result of deregulation. The mishmash of programs clearly needs a thorough re-examination rather than just some further tinkering...
Campaign Director William Casey dismissed the entire episode as a "semantic mishmash," but the strained faces of staffers-and of Reagan and Running Mate George Bush, who was at his side during the press conference in Los Angeles-reflected a far deeper concern than that. Reagan's earlier remarks had managed to infuriate Peking, create the impression of a rift between Reagan and Bush, and make Reagan appear to be unschooled in an important area of U.S. foreign affairs. The episode also managed to do exactly what Democrats had been hoping for: it put Reagan on the defensive, correcting...
...more and more questions the longer the seminars ran. "A yellow-pad President," said Republican Howard Baker, an eager though undeclared candidate for the job. But he had a point that haunted many. It was estimated that Carter's notes ran to hundreds of pages. From such a mishmash of people, prejudice and points of view, how can an executive distill any rational policy in so short a time? Many thought he could not, that this was another demonstration of Carter's mistaken idea of how an executive does his job. He may overwhelm himself with too many...
...Congress itself that wrote the mishmash of laws that the department tries to administer. Still, the department has added to its own woes...
...like covering them in depth, support for space fell faster than Skylab. Nixon, whose obnoxiousness had interrupted the moonwalk, turned around and canned the last three Apollos. The funds for the proposed space station were cut sharply, meaning that Skylab would be built on the cheap, out of a mishmash of spare parts from the Apollo programs. NASA wanted to put the station into a higher orbit than the one ended in Australia last week, but the money wasn't there...