Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Less immune, my foot! I agree with President Carter's decision to sign the bill that will grant only ambassadors, attaches and other high-ranking embassy officials and their families total immunity, but I still think this part of the diplomatic community has too much freedom. Why should a foreign diplomat in the U.S. be free to do things that a citizen of the U.S. cannot...
Carter is enlarging the Council on Wage and Price Stability to monitor major wage contracts and the price increases set by large corporations, and offenders will suffer at least a public scolding. Firms doing business with the Government will have to sign agreements to comply with the standards when they get new contracts. Although Carter said that these contracts involve $80 billion in Government purchases each year, so many of them involve untouchable priority items, such as defense purchases, that the Government actually has leverage over only some $20 billion in new contracts each year. Still another veiled threat came...
...response from the crowd was only mildly enthusiastic. The President drew louder cheers in sunny Miami when he asked a rally of some 1,000 mostly elderly citizens: "When I get back to Washington and get that less-than-perfect tax bill, do you think I ought to sign it?" As his listeners roared "Yes!" Carter grinned and replied: "I will take your advice. I have decided to sign the bill." Then turning again to inflation, he spoke out for his plan as "badly needed." Said he: "It is tough. It is necessary. It is fair." The success...
...Strauss and Carter himself repeatedly, if sometimes vainly, cajoled the Federal Reserve to keep credit easy and hold down interest rates. The President might have known that bankers and businessmen, many of whom considered money policy to have been loose in months past, would interpret this as yet another sign that the Administration was soft on inflation...
...general move toward détente, it will be understood as such. Our relations with Peking may also change in time. But if you normalize with China in a way that has definite military and political undertones of an anti-Soviet nature, it may be seen as a sign of something very sinister...