Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advice is especially needed today, Landers said, because America is suffering through a period of "moral leukemia," in which "it takes nerves of steel even to be a neurotic...
...Since August, there has been remarkably little change in voters' opinions of Ford. Half of the people surveyed fault him for pardoning Richard Nixon, 48% say he cannot deal with Congress, 33% believe he is too conservative. But Ford's weekend trips as the guest of U.S. Steel when he was a Congressman are not taken very seriously by the voters. Less than one-third believe that the jaunts raise serious questions about his judgment...
Newsmen also asked about Ford's acceptance, while he was a Congressman, of free golf outings and overnight stays at private clubs. The bills were paid by several corporations, including U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel, Alcoa and Firestone. The matter was hardly of great significance, since such freebees were common, at least in preWatergate Washington. Carter, in fact, has conceded that he and his family were guests of Brunswick (Ga.) Pulp &Paper Co. at its showcase "pine plantation" for several days in 1972, when he was Governor of Georgia. He had been invited there, the company said, to discuss...
Feet firmly planted in conservative black pumps, she stands before audiences with no notes, her only prop a glass of water. With a spontaneity that makes her long-mastered speech sound newly minted, she hard-sells Jimmy Carter. These two sides of Rosalynn Carter, velvet and steel, have caused a minor quandary: she cannot decide whether to dub her swift little campaign plane Magnolia One or First Person, a women's-lib twitting of the First Lady title...
Experts believe that they have broken the building's habit of twisting in high winds and popping out its windows. To tame the tower, they installed 300 L-shaped steel reinforcement beams and a giant shock absorber consisting of 600 tons of lead and steel attached by springs on the 58th floor. Stronger tempered glass was installed in all 10,344 windows. The renovations cost $15 million, which helped run the building's total tab to more than $150 million, twice what the company had expected to pay when ground was broken...