Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It was the Administration's first foreign policy success with Congress in months, and it is likely to be supplemented this week if, barring last-minute hitches, the Senate approves Kissinger's Sinai agreement. Yet even here the Senate Foreign Relations Committee asserted itself by ignoring Kissinger'...
Delicate Refusal. But two unions representing state employees went to court to prevent any of their $7.2 billion pension funds from being invested in the tottering city. The court ruled that the legislature did not have the authority to order Comptroller Levitt to buy the bonds. The court did not...
Dr.M. Judah Folkman doesn't like to see his name associated in print with cures for cancer. No matter how obscure the reference, Folkman says, he is "deluged, absolutely deluged" with abject pleas for treatment, and the publicity is not worth the suffering it causes.
In Washington, President Ford met for 45 minutes with Carey and again turned down pleas for any form of federal bailout. Said Treasury Secretary William Simon: We "will do nothing to help the city avoid default or lead it out of bankruptcy." Chairman Arthur Burns reiterated that the Federal Reserve...
Pleas for increased stimulus probably are aimed more at Japan and West Germany than at the U.S. They are more dependent than the U.S. on earnings from foreign sales, and are traditionally inclined to sit back in times of recession and wait for their export markets to bounce back and...