Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Watergate. Carter is probably holding U.S. foreign policy to an impossibly high standard, one that he would have trouble meeting in a world in which power is still the main arbiter between nations. Ford defended the morality of his policies, citing U.S. efforts to feed the hungry, end the Middle East crisis, and make peace in southern Africa. Said he: "What is more moral than peace? And the U.S. is at peace today...
...Spanish-born Theo Alcantara, a ballet troupe and a civic theater. Jerry and Betty Ford buy season tickets, but they are used by his half brothers, Jim, an optometrist, and Richard, who works as manager for the Ford Paint and Varnish Co., which the Ford family sold to Standard Detroit Paint...
...standard line on the Hollywood Ten goes that they decided to forego honor for the first time when they left the East Coast. Some had been active in the Party when they lived in New York, others got involved once they came to Los Angeles. For the most part they were, like Fitzgerald's character Pat Hobby, well-paid and kicked around. Men like Trumbo and Adrian Scott were filled with electric energy when they got to Hollywood to work, but the movies turned almost everything they did to pablum...
...health and a never-ceasing flow of energy." That no doubt remains the basic objective in the current profusion of books offering advice on how to cope with life, but the new authors differ from Peale in the emphasis they place on self-care and psychological detachment. Among the standard themes in the current crop of self-help manuals...
Angered state officials immediately challenged Moody's evaluation, pointing out that Standard & Poor's, the other major rating service, had continued to give MAC bonds an A-plus rating. But no one questioned Moody's motives until last week, when Felix Rohatyn, feisty, flamboyant chairman of MAC, demanded that the firm disqualify itself from evaluating MAC bonds because its political bias made it "unfit" A few days later in Washington, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Robert Gerard cautiously agreed that if Moody's were basing its judgment on such political considerations as what the New York...