Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into my office every 15 minutes." The President told his aides somewhat gloomily that he believed he could not be re-elected if the peace talks collapsed. He first considered Henry Kissinger for the job but decided that the former Secretary of State could not be trusted to protect Carter's interests...
...Administration. The principals, Vance, Strauss, Jordan and Vice President Walter Mondale gathered that night, at the end of March, in Mondale's living room. Vance insisted that he had already yielded too much to Brzezinski in the past couple of years, as Vance put it, to protect Brzezinski against his own large insecurities. "It's not personal, it's institutional," maintained the Secretary. "It will be a terrible blow for the State Department." Mondale tried to be the peacemaker. The group stayed up until 3 o'clock in the morning with the distraught Vance refusing...
...Reserve and foreign central banks to prop the dollar's value by buying up billions on the international money exchanges. His preference: let the dollar float freely until it reaches its real market value. Dornbusch takes much the same hands-off attitude toward trade: the U.S. should not protect its industries from foreign competition, and, conversely, it should insist that its trading partners reciprocate. In a free global market, Americans would be forced to face up to the fact that either the nation controls its inflation or the dollar will continue its fall...
...young German soldier named Paul Baumer; today he is played by Richard Thomas, the onetime John Boy of The Waltons. Ernest Borgnine portrays Stanislaus Katczinsky, the Polish veteran who instructs the raw army recruits. Borgnine and the rest of the cast had to take gamma globulin shots to protect themselves against a countrywide epidemic of a hepatic disease. Location shooting is hell...
What worried the Coast Guard and a 150-member group of experts from eight federal agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, was the oil's elusive quality. In contrast to other major spills, which usually move on the surface of the water, much of this oil has weathered, sunk and is moving along as deep as 40 ft. below the surface. The sausage-shaped rubberized barriers that were towed into place by the Coast Guard to protect the beaches extend only less than 3 ft. below the surface. Said John Robinson...