Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...switch in plans was a particular disappointment to Brzezinski, who had masterminded the trip. But it came as something of a relief to many of Carter's aides, including Vance, who all along had questioned the wisdom of the expedition, even though Vance defended it in public. During last year's presidential campaign, Carter said he would not travel abroad in his first year in office. Yet he had already attended the London summit in May, and here he was preparing to plunge into a grab bag of nations (Brazil, Venezuela, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, India, Iran, France, Poland...
...IREX regulation, the total number of months American academics spend in a particular nation must equal the amount of time that nation's scholars spend in the U.S. in any one year...
...last month, in fact, has been like a sandwich with fresh rolls and leftover salami The Dartmouth game was immense. The Penn performance was awesome enough. In between, the Princeton and Brown contests were farces. In particular, the Princeton fiasco, where only an adequate performance was needed for Harvard to be fighting for sole possession of the title tomorrow...
...plots to secretly deliver funds in 1970 to the opponents of the late Chilean president Salvador Allende Gossens. Once on the witness stand, there was no telling how many intelligence secrets a desperate Richard Helms might cough up to save his own neck. Conversely, Justice officials and, in particular, the Carter administration acknowledged the need to hold Helms accountable for his transgressions while under oath; the post-Watergate ethos and Carter's own promises for an "open Administration" still pervade Washington...
...into the Social Security system about 6 million additional workers (2.4 million federal employees, 3 million state and local government employees and 200,000 workers for nonprofit organizations). The move would have increased the system's revenues by as much as $4 billion a year. It was opposed in particular by federal workers, who are already covered by a retirement program that pays them pensions up to four times Social Security's maximum benefit of $460 a month...