Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voting switch in a subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee came from Delaware Republican Pierre S. Du Pont. After voting earlier against aid, he provided the majority vote for a compromise package of $82.5 million spread over 90 days and tied to monthly reports by Ford on progress in seeking a negotiated settlement. All military aid would end June 30. Du Pont, 40, argued that this would be more useful in achieving peace than an abrupt cutoff of help...
...were fascinated by it, of course." Ross says, "but we had no way of telling whether anyone else would be." The book began to sell almost immediately, however, and as its fame spread, so did reader response--an important source for many of the later editions' updated records. The McWhirters say they get about 10,000 letters a year, and answer all but a few--mostly American--whose authors neglect to include their addresses. "Sometimes they write a second time to demand an answer and the second letter lacks an address." Norris says firmly. "It isn't taught...
...influence comes from consulting, not ordering; he understands that he must get along to some degree with almost everybody, including Jerry Ford. He has opened up the Ways and Means Committee to the outside world, named subcommittees to spread authority and credit. His committee has come up with a tax-rebate bill to counter Ford's, a bill to stop Ford's tax on imported oil, and Ways and Means is hammering out its own energy measure with allocation provisions and a new gas tax. Al Ullman stands right at the crossroads of the national crisis. The White...
Informed conversation is simply too hard to get those who can give it are spread too thin. This does not reflect a lack of intelligence in Texas: the deficiency is cultural and involves a deflection of interest from anything remotely suggestive of mind...
...Department of Defense under the stewardship of Robert McNamara. Because the techniques have often been applied without sufficient judgment and discrimination, they have attracted their fair share of criticism. Yet the use of methods such as program budgeting, cost-benefit analysis and simulation models has continued to spread beyond the Defense Department to other government agencies and nonprofit institutions. As a result, even the critics must acknowledge that key policymakers should be acquainted with these methods if only to appreciate their pitfalls and avoid becoming captive to elaborate staff studies which they cannot adequately comprehend...