Word: panels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clay had been a ubiquitous figure at the conference, chairing the Caucus' meetings with the press, serving on the panel on Communications and filling in on the one on Health...
...John Connally and Budget Boss George Shultz, Nixon declared: "I shall not be deterred by the disaffection of a few union leaders who represent only 17% of America's 80 million wage earners." His solution was to continue controls under a rejiggered Pay Board. Instead of a tripartite panel made up of five members each from business, labor and the public, the board will now have five public members and one representative from labor and business. Ironically, Frank E. Fitzsimmons, president of the scandal-scarred Teamsters, who refused to walk out, is for the moment the panel...
Despite labor's spoiler tactics, the panel made progress, the economy picked up, Nixon's chances for re-election seemed to brighten. Thus Meany's position as a "team member" on the board became untenable. He has made no secret of his earnest desire to block Nixon's reelection. The rejection of the dock settlement was the last best chance to quit in high dudgeon, and Meany took...
...Duke of Berry's belief in a connection between riches and virtue was quite like J. Pierpont Morgan's. He collected nearly every imaginable kind of art object, from panel paintings to antique cameos, from medallions to tapestries, and even a unicorn's horn given to him by the Pope. The result was a triumph of manic connoisseurship-the greatest private collection in Europe...
Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and moderator of the panel discussion, agreed with Brzezinski. He said that "part of the reason for this strong anxiety is related to the way the the U.S. government set up the meeting with China...