Word: projected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's weak political standing was helped little by his busy summer efforts to shore up his Administration and to project a more decisive image as a national leader. More than a third of those polled thought that Carter has lately shown more leadership than in the past, but his trouble persists. Only one person in ten expressed any confidence in Carter's ability to deal with the economy. Only 13% could say that they had a lot of confidence that he could handle the energy problem. Just one in ten said he was competent enough to appoint...
...which outlawed racial discrimination in hotels, restaurants and other public places. He also refused to spend some of Johnson's pet poverty program funds allocated to Texas. The wires between the White House and the Austin statehouse hummed. Johnson at one point badly needed Connally's support for a project but the Governor would not talk to him; the President phoned a startled Congressman Gonzalez at midnight and asked him to persuade the prodigal proteg?...
...cases, suspicion has already turned to hostility. In Denver, 18 refugee families fled from their dilapidated housing project two weeks ago after a brick-and-bottle battle between the Vietnamese and their chicane neighbors. Four families have since returned. Although the fight was sparked by a chicane theft, some of the chicanos mistakenly thought that their neighbors had fought against the U.S. in Viet...
Harvard is disputing many of the claims, and a resolution still awaits months of negotiation. But this fall tighter new HEW rules take effect. They require, among other things, that universities produce a record for 100% of the time worked by research-project staff members, even if only a portion of their work load can actually be charged to a given project...
...bookkeeping; invoking the Freedom of Information Act to gain access to HEW audit files, he has made a nationwide study of the accounting practices of 100 colleges. Among his findings: overbilling of federal research grants for medical insurance; hiding cost overruns with "journal transfers"-the practice of billing one project for work done on another...