Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flanked by his photogenic family as he made his announcement at Washington's National Press Club, Bush took a poke at President Carter: "We have learned that good intentions are not enough in a President. To be effective, leadership in the 1980s must be based on a politics of substance, not symbols; of reason, not bombast; of frankness, not false promise." He called for the usual Republican objectives: reduced federal spending, a balanced budget, increased military strength, a tougher foreign policy...
...instant smile of a doctor's receptionist, she looked rather like the chairman of a garden club in an affluent suburb. But in her first year as an M.P. she managed to get one of her own bills on the statute books?an early "sunshine law" that gave the press and the public the right to attend meetings of regional and urban councils...
There are no plans to leave NATO. The U.S. maintains airbases at Thule and Søndre Strømfjord and operates four early warning radar stations that probe deep into the Soviet Union. Eventually, Motzfeldt says, Greenland will "press the Americans to pay a tax for polluting our country with their planes and disturbing our people and wildlife...
Rather than press criminal charges against the companies, DOE told them to refund the money, and gave the firms 40 days to appeal to an administrative law judge. Government attorneys fear that meeting the strict, "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard of proof under criminal law would be almost impossible considering the technicalities of the case...
...White House, for instance, little maids from various schools, including First Daughter Amy, mounted excerpts from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, with its lighthearted attacks on both monarchy and things Japanese. Others in a cast of tens were Emily Powell, daughter of the President's press secretary, Senate siblings, ambassadorial ingenues, and Alice Jay, whose grandfather, James Callaghan, was in the process of losing his prime ministership at show time. Their ensemble was joined by another from the Soviet embassy, including Katya Dobrynin, the ambassador's granddaughter, who enchanted the East-West audience with her folk...