Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul A. Volcker, 50, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank and vice chairman of the Fed's powerful Open Market Committee. A Democrat who was Treasury Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs during the Nixon Administration, Volcker is considered a bit too much of a monetarist by some of the Keynesian economists around Carter...
...Nixon and Ford Administrations, which had their own economic troubles with Japan, were generally satisfied with stopgap Japanese restrictions on exports to the U.S. The Carter Administration, to its credit, is taking a different line. Although they have negotiated an "orderly marketing agreement" limiting sales of Japanese color TVs in the U.S., the President and his aides are concentrating not on buying less from Japan but on selling more to it. Strauss wants the Japanese to abolish quotas on agricultural goods and lower tariffs on myriad manufactured products. Says he: "Right now we're getting the worst...
...should know. His first dean of the Faculty, John T. Dunlop, resigned in early 1973 to become director of the Cost of Living Council in the Nixon administration, and he became Secretary of Labor shortly afterwards...
...Harvard failed to score in the fourth through the seventh positions, as John Stubbs, Clancy Nixon, Mitch Reese, and Clark Bain all came up short against strong players from Ontario. Chuck Elliot and Jeff Seacrest, seeded eight and ninth respectively, accounted for two more points to round out the Crimson scoring...
...large by an overseeing national commission. They were white, black, yellow, Hispanic and Indian?and four were Eskimo. They were rich, poor, radical, conservative, Democratic, Republican and politically noninvolved. Three Presidents' wives were guests: Rosalynn Carter, Betty Ford and Lady Bird Johnson. (Jackie Onassis turned down an invitation; Pat Nixon was ill.) One step removed from Houston, but hardly less actively involved, were the roughly 130,000 women who had participated in the long delegate-selection process leading up to the conference?part of America's real majority: the 110 million women who make up 51.3% of the nation...