Word: statements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deep differences were evident from the moment Begin arrived. Fearful that the visitor might make some inflammatory remark on deplaning without Carter present for a rebuttal, the State Department had asked him to forgo any statement upon landing. He did so, striding silently past waiting microphones and reporters...
...committee then drafted a policy statement containing about 160 recommendations for new programs and for improvements in 38 existing ones now run by nine separate agencies. Highlights...
Carter's statement on urban policy was born amid bureaucratic fumbles and intense infighting. Two months after his Inauguration he set up a committee composed chiefly of six Cabinet members, headed by Harris, to work out the policy. Harris and HEW Secretary Joseph Califano were immediately at loggerheads. He favored programs that would directly help poor people no matter where they live; she wanted to get money into distressed urban areas. Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, who was opposed to any idea that would reduce tax revenues, resisted proposed tax cuts or incentives for businesses located in distressed areas...
...Citibank no-loan decision probably is more significant. A Senate report identifies Citibank as one of eleven U.S. banks that have made most of the $2.2 billion in U.S. loans now outstanding to South Africa. Citibank did not trumpet its decision; it broke the news in a proxy statement to shareholders, quietly adding that it is continuing to lend "selectively, to constructive private sector activities that create jobs and which benefit all South Africans." It did not say what guidelines it would follow to make sure its loans achieved a multiracial purpose. Nonetheless, activist groups that have been pushing...
...balance and rhythm of that statement seem characteristic of Vidal at his talk-show best, it is because Teddy O is the author's mouthpiece. Throughout the novel there is a running patter about the things Vidal loves to hate: population growth, women writers who try to write like Henry Miller, hacks, agents, the so-called communications industry, and politicians. By now these subjects are part of the author's reflexology, though as a latter-day Restoration wit he can still bring them to life in cutting caricature...