Word: promptings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite repeated assurances that the President wants a prompt, thorough investigation, the White House has fought blatantly and with marked success to drag out Watergate, to stall the impeachment process by every possible means. Nixon's lawyers last week maneuvered in court to slow the case and kept stonewalling against the House Judiciary Committee's request for more evidence, to which it is entitled under the Constitution. The committee's impeachment timetable continued to slip badly...
...aware of the problems that confront a generation that has been reared in a scientific era ... [He] is increasingly aware of the need for the church to concern itself with practical affairs." Others praised Coggan's efficiency and administrative abilities. "A theologian with a tape recorder handy for prompt dictation, and a meticulousness equal to that of any managing director," wrote Baden Hickman in The Guardian. A few years ago Coggan took the unprecedented step of hiring a management consultant to streamline his diocese at York...
...support for his party. Stanfield has forcefully exploited Canadians' mounting impatience over the government's lackluster handling of inflation, which is currently running at about 10%. While Trudeau sought to blame external factors for Canada's mushrooming cost of living, Stanfield called for firm and prompt wage-price controls. The government's stand on inflation, he argued, was "cynical and incredible . . . a message of despair." A government report last month disclosed that prices in Canada rose more rapidly in 1973 than in the U.S., Britain, West Germany and France...
...said, "The long-delayed implementation of the decision, the continuing hostility of the society to its implementation, and the less-than-impressive statistics attributed to black students in desegregated settings" should prompt "much more work in developing the old 'separate but equal' concept of Plessy v. Ferguson," which he said failed largely because it was never meaningfully enforced...
...snapped shut as decisively and relatively cleanly on Watergate as they were last week on the President's tax problems. Of course, they cannot be. But a lesson lurks in the swift disposition of the case of Nixon's taxes. It was the White House's full and prompt cooperation with the tax investigators that sped the resolution of the affair...