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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal agency has responded more quickly to Carter's anti-interference order than the Environmental Protection Agency, regarded as a special plague by business. Administrator Douglas Costle, 38, formerly Connecticut's environmental commissioner, insists that every new rule proposed to him must include an economic impact statement and it is often submitted to state environmental offices for their comments. Costle always asks subordinates: "Have you looked at alternative ways, including doing nothing?" Though Carter's well-touted zero-based budgeting has gone nowhere in most agencies, it has worked well at EPA. Holed up in a windowless room for three...
...most important things that happened in 1977 may not have been in an Executive order or a law passed by Congress or an idea spoken by Jimmy Carter. It may have been the extraordinary web of civilized human relationships spun among the men and women of Washington and world power almost in spite of themselves...
...podium this young man is clearly an unceasing source of adrenaline for his singers and players. The sensuous darting about of the violins in the Act I bacchanal was all gossamer. The onstage trumpets during the entry march of the minnesingers in Act II were like a close-order drill in their precision. The delicate?and decidedly Mendelssohnian?woodwind passage accompanying Elisabeth's farewell was appropriately ethereal. The chorus, which has many roles in this opera (sirens, pilgrims, knights, ladies), sang like the virtuoso ensemble it is fast becoming under Levine and Chorus Master David Stivender...
...money is beginning to roll in at just the right time; after three nightmarish years, Britain is finally getting its economy in order. Much of the credit goes to the International Monetary Fund, which a year ago made available $3.9 billion in loan money to Britain in return for a severe austerity program. The IMF loan prevented a collapse of sterling. A long period of voluntary wage restraint, accepted by Britain's powerful trade unions at the Labor government's prompting, has reduced inflation from a Latin American annual rate of almost 27% in August 1975 to a still high...
...been debating five main options for using the North Sea revenues: 1) accelerate repayment of the country's $24 billion in accumulated long-term foreign debts (an unlikely choice), 2) develop alternative sources of energy against the day when North Sea oil runs out, 3) expand public services in order to reduce unemployment, which last month declined only slightly from its autumn-long postwar record level, to 6% of the labor force, 4) increase investment in modernizing Britain's woefully outdated plant and equipment, 5) cut taxes. The decision, which will not be made until Parliament debates the issue...