Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems strange for a nation that cries for more physicians to turn aside students who seek nothing more than a quality education in their own country...
...adjournment by mid-November, the 95th Congress last week was embroiled in the toughest struggle of its ten-month opening session. Contentious, unpredictable and highly independent of the new man in the White House, the lawmakers faced a politically unpleasant task: fashioning an energy bill designed to reduce the nation's dangerous dependence on imported oil?a piece of legislation likely to take money out of just about everybody's pocket. Their situation was aptly described by Indiana's John Brademas, the House Democratic whip: "It is tough enough with separation of powers and the absence of disciplined parties...
This mystery of leadership has been pondered since our beginnings as a nation, but we are still not sure of the ingredients. Why did Herbert Hoover, a brilliant engineer and a humanitarian of inflexible integrity, fail, while Roosevelt, imprecise and conspiratorial, succeeded so well in "being President...
...thing, it may have been easier to be President when a huge crisis faced the nation, focusing attention, resources and sympathy. People thought Jimmy Carter was lucky to take office at a time when no crisis of magnitude loomed. But it meant that Carter's early months were to be a time of debating, persuading, educating, tinkering and posing, all tasks that have grown immensely more difficult in the past few years...
...plain that television, long considered more of a weapon for a President than for his adversaries, is double-edged. Dissent on almost any level ricochets instantly from the far reaches of the nation to the Oval Office. Presidential TV Aide Rick Neustadt says that in the old days a President could make a controversial announcement in the afternoon and know there could be no public answers on television until the next day: to set up cameras and process and edit film took too long to make the evening news. But new technology has made instant response a fact. Carter...