Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frank Milliken, 63, Kennecott's president, deputized Senior Vice President Milton Stern to justify the purchase of a company for twice its book value. Stern's explanation: "We liked what we saw at Carborundum in terms of the people, products and continuing growth. We know that $66 is good value." Stern also says that Kennecott had to pay a premium price because it was in "a bidding situation"-meaning that it was in competition with other companies interested in acquiring Carborundum...
After receiving information from the four key advisers, plus occasional advice from Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps or Labor Secretary Ray Marshall, the President reaches decisions pretty much by himself. He rarely meets with the inner four as a group; instead he hears them out individually, acting as a stern father confessor demanding a mountain of documentation to back up every policy proposal. Says one aide: "He will decide in Schultze's favor on one issue and then in Blumenthal's favor on the next. There is no principal economic policymaker outside the President...
...pollsters asked people to make judgments on a series of actions, deciding whether such actions were morally wrong or not a moral issue. On most issues the answers were stern ones...
Britain's heavily burdened taxpayers last week got an early Christmas present from Denis Healey, the Labor government's stern Chancellor of the Exchequer and previously a champion of austerity. Presenting his second minibudget of the year to a tune of increasing optimism over North Sea oil, Healey abandoned his Scrooge-like posture to unwrap a package of tax cuts and state-pension increases worth $1.75 billion this fiscal year (which ends next March) and $3.5 billion in the following fiscal year. Under the proposals, a married couple earning $8,750 a year will pay $95 less income tax; Britons...
...coming back to our own way, our own way of thinking," the Lieutenant Governor of the reservation intimates, with a deep, buttery, Indian voice which somehow dissolves all doubts. Raymond Moore is fortyish, with a big, barrel-like frame from which his voice bellows, interpreted by a benign stern face. Raymond Moore is the kind of man who can tell you stories that scare children and men equally...