Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, the Administration's foreign policymaking seems to be functioning better than ever. Carter seems more comfortable with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. On a picture of the two of them jogging in Jerusalem last month, Carter jokingly wrote: "At least once we're in step." The President is still high on Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, but some aides believe that because of Carter's personal involvement in the Middle East negotiations, Vance alone will not have the clout to keep future talks on track...
Somoza's critics now include a majority of the nation's businessmen; they claim that none of this would have happened if the Carter Administration had more forcefully pressed the dictator to step down. They point out that U.S. Marines were instrumental in installing the Somoza family in power 46 years ago. In light of that, they charge, Washington should have gone well beyond the cutoff of economic and military assistance that the Carter Administration ordered after Somoza last January rejected an American proposal for a plebiscite to determine his government's future. "Such sanctions have...
...rooms have given way to other priorities. On a visit to Japan last week, Deng Yingchao, widow of the late Premier Chou Enlai, explained: "We have now realized that there were too many projects to be launched simultaneously. We must keep the balance between agriculture and light industry. One step backward is necessary for two steps forward...
...thumping is also helping to stir up hostility to oil companies. Two days after his nationally televised energy message, with its harsh attack on the oil industry, the President defended his decontrol program before a Democratic fund-raising dinner by saying, "I will not allow this painful but necessary step to become an excuse for a massive rip-off of the American people by American oil companies. They are going to be all over Capitol Hill like a chicken on a June bug. They say they have more influence on Congress than the American people have...
...greeted the proposal with hints that Paley is really bothered because CBS has slipped to No. 2. Yet Paley made a similar proposal ten years earlier when CBS was indisputably on top, proud of being "mass with class." Is Paley now out of step at 77? He insists: "In this business at least, one always has to remember that he's not scheduling a network or anything else to please himself; he has to do it in order to please his audience...