Word: nixon
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While the Shah's military machine frightened some Arab neighbors, the U.S. looked on it as a bulwark against the spread of Soviet influence in the Middle East, and President Nixon gave the Shah carte blanche to buy all the American weapons he desired...
...third quarter. But with the yen weakening almost 23% against the dollar this year, the Japanese are becoming even more competitive. So American steel men are again unhappy and want the trigger price to be raised considerably. Steel men believe Government pricing decisions -from the Kennedy jawboning and the Nixon controls to the Carter guidelines -have been responsible for keeping its profitability low and thus denying it needed investment capital...
...maintained that Congress had no need to provide a detailed justification for the 10% set-aside, since it had "unique competence" to right past wrongs as it saw fit. Although the Government had been trying to help minority businesses in various ways for ten years, going back to the Nixon Administration's "black capitalism" campaign, Days said, "Congress concluded that these measures simply had not worked," and that quotas therefore were necessary...
Jailbird, By Kurt Vonnegut (Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, $9.95): At last, Vonnegut captures the essence of the Harvard Experience: Mid-Western chauffeur's son is packed off to Harvard by a stammering millionaire. He promptly becomes a Communist, serves time in the Roosevelt and Nixon camps, then lands in jail as a Watergate henchman. Praised as the best of Vonnegut's recent works...
Ronald Reagan: The Republican front runner is trying to smooth the edges of his earlier right-wing stridency. His chief economic adviser: Martin Anderson, who was a member of Richard Nixon's White House staff. Like Brown, Reagan calls for a constitutional limit on unrestrained spending. He also urges an income tax cut, perhaps as much as 33%, arguing that the boost to business would quickly result in more productivity. That, in theory, would generate increased tax receipts and cut the budget deficit. Reagan advocates the indexing of income tax rates-that is, people would pay taxes...