Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outlined by Administration aides last week, Carter's policy seeks to offer something for just about everyone, but almost no one will be entirely satisfied. The "partnership" offers-several innovative and much needed new programs. But for the most part, it is a repackaging of existing ones. Moreover, reflecting Carter's promise to balance the budget by 1980, he has kept a tight-some would say miserly-grip on the purse strings. He intends to add only an estimated $3.5 billion to the $85 billion to be spent to aid states and cities in fiscal...
...been particularly heavy in recent months. Moreover, since southern Lebanon became a base of Palestinian operations in the early 1970s, the Israelis have clearly had the better of the sporadic cross-border conflict in the area. Also, U.S. officials point out, no "security zone," however it is policed, can offer Israel much additional protection from determined attack by fanatic Palestinian guerrillas. In fact, the attackers who seized the bus on the highway to Tel Aviv struck not across the Lebanese border but from...
...Navy is not exactly proud of its procedures. Indeed, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown has conceded that in the submarine case the Government had "not written the contracts carefully enough, nor have we disciplined ourselves to minimize changes, which greatly escalate costs." The Navy says it has offered additional cash to General Dynamics, but obviously the amount was not enough to satisfy the company. Neither General Dynamics nor the Navy would reveal the size of the rejected offer...
...pretending that it isn't fun. In its own bumbling way, American Hot Wax rekindles the cataclysmic spirit of the rock-'n'-roll revolution of the 1950s. Audiences who care little for rock should stay away, and so should anyone who expects movies to offer a credible plot. American Hot Wax is largely meant for a hard-core crowd-the moviegoers who have seen Saturday Night Fever three times and are desperate for a new rock-film...
...which is basically an hour-long collection of documentary-type reports. In addition, Producer David Susskind is developing a personality-profile TV show for CBS based on PEOPLE magazine, and stations across the nation are pasting together local variations of the magazine genre. At this rate television may soon offer more "magazines" than the corner newsstand...