Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than difficulties with specific problems that plagues the Administration and prompts the Chicken Little chorus. There is a mounting mood in Washington that the Carter presidency may be fundamentally flawed and that the Chief Executive may, despite his widely respected intelligence and dedication, be unable to lead the nation effectively. His apprenticeship has already lasted too long, according to a number of veteran observers, and he has too far to go before he becomes a skillful practitioner of Washington politics. Public opinion surveys have chronicled a fairly steady slide in presidential popularity-from a peak of 75% of those...
...Carter's style of leading that may be at the heart of the problem. Although he is Chief of State of the world's most powerful nation, he seems more comfortable wearing his famed cardigan than the mantle of presidential leadership. Perhaps in an attempt to avoid the trappings and pitfalls of the imperial presidency, Carter has been too reluctant to assert himself, to lean on people, to operate, in a sense, with the ruffles and flourishes that this one job of all in the U.S. may demand. As admirable a trait as this may be in many...
...billion, United's orders are by far the largest transaction in aviation history. But they are only the beginning, and they affect far more than just the airlines. Aircraft sales abroad are one of the U.S.'s largest export items, and without them the nation's trade balance would suffer disastrously. Plane sales are also a matter of national pride, and for the first time ever, the U.S.'s dominance of civil aviation is being seriously challenged by European governments, which are pressing their state-owned airlines to buy jets made by their own industries. Until...
Four of the unions, covering 340,000 of the nation's 496,000 railway workers, signed a "memo of understanding" for a threeyear, 35% increase in wages and cost of living allowances. John Sytsma, president of the Locomotive Engineers, declared that his members had shown "admirable restraint" because they had originally asked for a 45% raise. Said Sytsma: "It's not quite fair to make labor the whipping boy for inflation...
Dress codes in clubs, restaurants and schools are a form of social discipline resting on the premise that certain kinds of dress will preclude certain kinds of behavior and, of course, certain kinds of people. Reluctantly, some of the nation's fancier restaurants have started admitting the tieless. But not La Caravelle in New York City. Says Co-Owner Fred Deere: "If you give in on ties, then people will start showing up without jackets. Next you will have shirts with short sleeves, or unbuttoned to the navel, with hairy chests and gold chains all over the place. That...