Word: presidentitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Modest in scope, but significant in impact," said Richard Nixon of the foreign-trade proposals that he sent to Congress last week-and so they were. While his message reaffirmed the nation's 35-year-old commitment to freer trade, the President sought only minor new authority to cut...
The President offered no proposals intended to help the import-troubled U.S. textile industry. The omission was tactical. U.S. and Japanese negotiators are dickering in Geneva over voluntary quotas for Japanese mills. The U.S. has made it plain to Tokyo that a protectionist-minded Congress might well adopt even harsher...
As administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency under President Kennedy, former Test Pilot Najeeb Halaby endeared himself to private flyers by hopping all over the nation for airport talkfests about their problems. His yen to be where the action is led him to fly to the scene of nearly every...
Last week Halaby's activist style propelled him into the boss's seat at Pan American World Airways, of which he has been president for the past 18 months. Chairman Harold Gray, 63, stepped down after only a year and a half as chief executive of the financially...
The first 60 days of auto sales, according to Ford's Group President Lee lacocca, establish the pattern of any model-year. Last week, as that milepost passed, Detroit was gearing down for a slow winter. Over the next three months, automakers plan to assemble 2,580,453 vehicles...