Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...messages to Congress and in his budget, Jimmy Carter has just set forth his economic policy for 1978. He hopes that it will prove to the country that his grasp of fiscal reality is firmer than it sometimes appears. Says Senior Editor George Church, who wrote this week's cover story: "Carter's severe problem is that he has convinced most of the business community that he doesn't know what he's doing...
...favorable responses were outweighed by skeptical or negative ones. Richard Peterson, senior vice president of Continental Illinois National Bank, complained that "there was nothing to help solve our rate of inflation." Joseph Lanterman, chairman of Chicago's Amsted Industries, manufacturers of railroad and industrial components, asserted that "Carter has not removed any of the uncertainties that plague the economy." Irving Seaman, chairman of Sears Bank and Trust in Chicago, called Carter's address "a bland, nothing speech. I'm even more apprehensive about the economy than before...
After Carter signs the order, he will ask Congress to enact it, giving it the permanency of law. It is expected to encounter little opposition despite the rising concern in Washington about Turner. Some senior advisers to Carter regard him as a poor manager of people and somewhat overweening. But they believe that another change at the top would only further damage the CIA, which has had five directors in five years. Still, by getting a new charter for all U.S. intelligence activities written into law, the Administration hopes to make spy operations more orderly and efficient, and keep them...
...White House is mobilizing not a moment too soon. After the pacts were signed last September, the Administration let slide the all-important job of building support for them. Belatedly, the President began dispatching senior Cabinet members around the country to try to change minds. Carter is moving into overdrive as well. Last week he answered questions on the treaties via direct telephone hookups to Foreign Policy Association-sponsored meetings in Albuquerque and in Hattiesburg, Miss. He also sent letters to 3,000 American leaders in business and the professions, encouraging them to "help us lay the facts before...
...senior from Winthrop House said yesterday the weather has caused him no more trouble "than a few soggy socks," and he prefers snow over rain because it makes everything so much more picturesque...