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...will celebrate the tenth anniversary of Neil Armstrong's "giant leap for mankind" next week. Carter would do well to ponder what it takes to push this country beyond itself, where lie great risks but greater rewards...
...medical expenses, it awarded her precisely $854,219.61, a stunning amount that headline writers could not resist calling variously NAVEL VICTORY, BATTLE OF MIDWAY, and BELLY LAUGH. Hours later, patient and doctor ran into each other at Manhattan's "21" Club; she was there to celebrate, he to ponder an appeal and "the absurdity...
...schedule between Prime Ministers and Senators on Wednesday or Thurs day at 12:30 is a unique institution of the modern presidency. Jimmy drinks buttermilk. Rosalynn has coffee. They nibble at salads and sin wildly when they plunge into a dollop of flan with ice cream. They ponder things like advice about Son Jack's grain-elevator business and the guest lists for approaching state dinners; then Rosalynn inevitably asks for the latest information on SALT or the Middle East. At one lunch, Rosalynn got the surprise of her life when the President revealed that just minutes earlier, agreement...
...expense of putting them on the market. Diebold also has his clients study the National Coal Policy Project. Companies that mine and use coal formed it with environmental leaders, and together they reached productive compromises to speed the digging and burning of coal. Similarly, Diebold's clients ponder the example of Pennsylvania Power & Light and Canada's Ontario Hydro. Before building a power plant, they solicit citizen volunteers to examine a number of sites and pick the one that seems the most desirable-and environmentally safest. Perhaps other corporations would be wise to join with real or potential...
...President Carter went up the mountain to Camp David last week, he could not have chosen a better moment to ponder the nation's future policies. The U.S. is at a decisive tipping point in its history. It is a time when the domestic policies decided on now will do much to determine whether the nation surges ahead during the 1980s-or enters a period of prolonged stagnation...