Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reagan calls the national campaign trail the "mashed potato circuit," and he has been wandering along it for 15 years. Says he: "I have a feeling now that I don't get on planes. I get up in the morning and put them on, like a pair of pants. I wear them. In show business we used to say that if you don't sing or dance, you wind up an after-dinner speaker...
Reagan's view of foreign relations is similarly one of a nation beleaguered. "I know this is going to be a perilous time ahead," he says. "I think the arrogance of the Soviet statements and actions reveals how far they are probably going to go to test us. I guess the biggest reaction of anything I say is to my line that maybe we should stop worrying about whether the rest of the world likes us, and decide we are going to be respected in the world as we once were. I think this loss of respect is reversible...
...Pfeiffer, chairman of NBC, and a dozen other captains of American industry and business. But last week Jimmy Carter finally found a nominee to succeed Juanita Kreps as Secretary of Commerce. His choice: Philip M. Klutznick, 72, a multimillionaire Chicago real estate developer. Said Klutznick: "I can't say I sought the job, but considering the problems that we face in the economic field, it's not easy to say no to the President...
...Indians say they cannot afford trap nets. They would require an initial investment of $20,000, about 20 times the cost of using a gill net. In the Chippewa view, the dispute is plain enough: it is between poor Indians who fish for a living and rich whites who fish for fun. Says Chippewa Elmer LeBlanc: "Our forefathers gave us the right to hunt and fish. I want it to be a livelihood...
...they have lived for generations may be invalid: the land may actually belong to the Indians. The whites probably face no real threat of eviction because many Chippewas seem willing to accept a compromise under which they might be given an equivalent amount of Government-owned land. But whites say that their property values have been depressed by uncertainty...