Word: option
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earnings Needed. The Ford Administration has one option that could ease the price crunch in the U.S: export controls that would in effect ration the amount of U.S. food made available to an increasingly hungry world. No proposal for such controls has yet been made to the President, but some Administration officials favor them. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz is opposed; he argues persuasively that controls would sabotage world trade by undermining confidence in the willingness of the U.S. to fulfill its agreements, and that the nation sorely needs large export earnings from farm goods to pay for imports...
...wanted to let the President know that his Senate support had collapsed and that many Republican Senators favored his immediate resignation. The aides carried the grim news to Nixon. Finally aware of the depth of his troubles, Nixon deferred such a meeting, but his last option, resignation, loomed larger...
...David Eisenhower called on Nixon. It was a strange performance since, after their separate lunches, the family would be together for dinner, along with Rose Mary Woods. It is possible that during those oddly formal meetings, Nixon first told the family that he was considering resignation, the option he had always rejected...
...prognosticates with a ruling contrary to all expert expectation. In the subpoena case, it was conceivable ?barely? that the Justices could deadlock at 4 to 4. Legally, that would leave the original Sirica order in force, but politically it would be a kind of victory for Nixon. Another option was to return the case to Sirica on some
...center of the dispute are 13 "freedom" demands that-if adopted -would radically alter the system of team ownership of players by abolishing the option clause, the "Rozelle rule" and other procedures that have severely limited a player's opportunity to move from team to team. The option clause requires a veteran to play out his contract, then put in another year at 90% of his previous season's salary before he can join a new team. According to the Rozelle rule, named after N.F.L. Commissioner Alvin ("Pete") Rozelle, a team that loses a player must be compensated...