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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nearly two years later, Butterfield is still being hunted down by hard core Nixonians. Now head of the Federal Aviation Administration, which is under attack for neglecting safety standards, he has been hampered by the undercutting and sandbagging of Nixon allies in the Department of Transportation, the parent body of FAA. What is more, Butterfield has been getting midnight phone calls from old associates who have berated him for coming clean about the White House tapes. One call came from Rose Mary Woods, the former President's longtime secretary, who angrily assailed Butterfield as a "son of a bitch...
...Band-Aid. The Witteveen facility is intended to last only one year; in all likelihood, the parent IMF will begin making ordinary loans to oil consumers when the facility's funds are exhausted. By that time, however, the much bigger, $25 billion safety net designed by the U.S. to aid industrial nations should also be in operation. All 24 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are to participate in the plan. Each time a member nation is granted a loan, all the other members would assume a set percentage of the risk. The U.S. would...
...mother's angel," to recognize that Brooks has overturned the greatest stereotype of all by putting on film what everyone has always wanted to happen. He seems to understand those of us who, as children, secretly hated the movie for being terrifying as hell. Like a kind parent, he takes the bogeys away by making it all seem hysterically funny...
...home failing grades during her first semester at Boston University. Says their mother Patricia: "As it turned out, neither of them was prepared for college. But when they come home with straight A's, you figure they're ready to go on." Adds another South Boston High parent: "These aren't the Harvards and Dartmouths that our kids are flunking out of. For the most part, they are state schools...
Angela Leonard was right. Students in college have reached their intellectual majority and should be considered as individuals separate from their parents in academic matters. Even problems considered emotional should be the province of senior tutors before an instructor approaches a parent...