Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Glueck added that when each senior spoke to the team about his four years at Harvard before the Yale game, Puopolo said, "Winning the Yale game is just the frosting on the cake, because as a member of this team I already have my cake...
...main root causing the protracted unrest in Hupei and Wuhan." Earlier this year the gang is said to have dispatched agitators to the industrial center of Wuhan in Hupei province for the purpose of forming a Chiang Ch'ing power clique. According to one broadcast, the conspirators spoke to each other only in Spanish in order to foil eavesdroppers...
Then the Schlesinger advocates rallied. Aides of AFL-CIO Chief George Meany spoke in Schlesinger's behalf-though some officials speculated that labor's lobbying was partially designed to strengthen John Dunlop's chances of being named Labor Secretary ("You give us Dunlop, and we'll accept Brown," the labor aides seemed to be suggesting). Washington Senator Henry M. Jackson took up the Schlesinger cause. So, in a discreet way, did Admiral Hyman Rickover, Carter's early mentor. Also backing Schlesinger were Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Stennis and Appropriations Committee Chairman John McClellan...
...direct the economy, and the key question is what President-elect Jimmy Carter will do−and whether any policy he adopts will have much effect before 1978. As Inauguration Day approaches, the talk in the Carter camp is becoming steadily more modest. His advisers at one time spoke ebulliently of slashing unemployment in 1977 by three or four percentage points. Since the election, Carter has set goals of 6% growth for his first year in office and only a 1½ point cut in the unemployment rate. On his own staff, there are growing doubts as to whether these...
Decent Interval. On his final official trip, Kissinger resisted any temptation to grow maudlin. Instead, he spoke of how the fundamentals of American foreign policy, which he had helped establish, would endure. He foresaw no radical change in the U.S. policy of detente toward Moscow; he urged NATO ministers to create incentives for the Soviet Union to seek responsible courses of action. He was optimistic about Middle East negotiations now that the influence of the Palestine Liberation Organization has "been reduced" and relations between Syria and the Soviet Union have chilled...