Word: projects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price restraints to curb inflation. Only the day before, at a lavish White House breakfast meeting, Carter had announced a gift of sorts for the 83-year-old Meany: a solid Administration endorsement for the troubled labor-reform bill. But despite Carter's help on this pet Meany project, the labor leader turned a cold shoulder to the President's request...
...largest desalination program in the world?and seriously pondering a plan for towing icebergs from the Antarctic to provide fresh water for a country that has not a single permanent river. The estimated cost of that: $80 million per berg. They are putting up $14 billion for a project that will bring natural gas to the newly planned industrial cities of Yanbo on the Red Sea and Jubail on the Persian Gulf, which are costing $30 billion to build. In the past three years, the Saudis have built nearly 300,000 housing units?enough for a quarter of the Saudi...
...Mildred Andrews Fund of Cleveland proposed the project...
Even before the first snowfall of my freshman year had fallen, I was upset over the way things at Harvard were going for me. The food tasted like a science project, my dorm was full of men whose only idea of activism was a sallow girl named Joanne, and none of my courses seemed relevant. I asked for a minority roommate, at least one, but instead was allotted a strapping Oklahoman with a "69" football shirt and soft contact lenses. He was the wayward son of a Senator. Some diversity, I thought. I am here to grow, I told myself...
...gross oversimplification. Two very different calamities befell the two earlier Presidents; Johnson was swept aside by a deep historic groundswell against the Viet Nam War, while Nixon was engulfed by a series of misdeeds and deceptions of his own making. If Carter fails to assert stronger leadership, and to project a sense and a pattern of purpose, the premature talk about a one-term presidency may yet become pertinent. But he is a long way from political destruction or electoral defeat...