Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, though, Carter decided that, yes, he could drop Burns and life would go on pretty much as usual. In a move that surprised official Washington and caught Burns off guard while he was on vacation in Florida, the President picked as Burns' successor a man whose name had never come up in public speculation: G. (for George) William Miller, 52, chairman and chief executive of Textron Inc., one of the nation's first and most successful corporate conglomerates...
...money supply that baffled and angered his many critics. During 1972. Burns allowed the money supply to grow sharply, leading to charges that he was trying to help his friend Nixon get re-elected by making sure that the economy was going full throttle. Whatever the motive, the move was a mistake: a year or so later, the aftereffects of the easy-money policy of 1972 combined with soaring food prices and the skyrocketing cost of oil to produce the roaring inflation...
Furniture is the luggage of living. While beds, chairs, tables and lamps are as essential to civilized society as books or bread, they are expensive, clumsy to carry, costly to move, often drearily designed and woefully apt to disintegrate. The solution? Make your...
From a purely selfish point of view, the move to Providence was a damaging one. Instead of the world's best women swimmers getting a chance to see Harvard's impressive pool, they got a chance to see Brown's. The Harvard attempt to fill Brown's pool with Veritas banners and Harvard t-shirts still does not nullify the effects of the location...
Despite the move away from Cambridge, Harvard retained control of all meet operations...