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...would not see any need in the future for additional grain embargoes. We've had three since Mr. Ford's been in office, none of which were necessary. I would try to strengthen trade. We've relegated foreign trade to a secondary position in our country for too long, and we now have a very severe balance of trade deficit...
...promote from within, possible candidates for Cabinet posts include James Baker, 46, the unflappable Houston lawyer who smoothly ran Ford's election campaign, and Richard Cheney, 35, the diligent White House chief of staff. But Ford, who likes to be surrounded by friends, may be slow to strengthen his own White House staff, which on the whole is weak and loaded with old cronies...
...find it in their interest to do business with U.S. firms, their boycott rules become as bendable as cooked spaghetti. Trans World Airlines, for example, flies to both Israel and Egypt in open violation of the ban. The Egyptian government explains that TWA's flights do nothing to "strengthen" the Jewish state...
...economy than the White House had intended. The shortfall probably was one reason for the pause in the U.S. economic recovery Explains one Washington economist:"We are worried about this pause, and we get more worried every day. This shortfall is just one more worry " It is sure to strengthen the hand of liberal economists who believe Congress should act early next year to give the economy another boost, probably a tax cut Brookings Institution Economist Arthur Okun, a Democrat and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers bristled over the shortfall and called the original budget figures...
With one freshman, John Sanacore, already playing with the varsity, Scalisefeels his crop can strengthen the presently dismal Harvard soccer program in the years to come...