Word: stuart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter told his Treasury Secretary, that Strauss was the right man to bend business and labor. Blumenthal was stunned and furious. He spent the next hour or so at the White House in a state of frenzy, flipping between the offices of Vice President Walter Mondale and Presidential Aide Stuart Eizenstat, who was still writing the President's speech. Said one White House aide who watched Blumenthal: "He was climbing the walls." Blumenthal was trying desperately to alter the decision and then, realizing it was irreversible, attempting to shore up his own position by making additions to Eizenstat...
Back in the early 1960s, two Southern California optometrists named Stuart Grant and Charles May learned of a surprising effect in patients they had fitted with contact lenses. The patients had been given the lenses to correct myopia, or nearsightedness, a condition that usually gets worse rather than better. Yet some of these people, after wearing contacts for only a few months, found their vision without lenses had mysteriously improved. Recalls Grant: "Sometimes they would get halfway to work and realize that they were not even wearing their contacts...
...opinion of many commodities dealers, the CFTC's ban is overkill because it would apply not only to the hucksters but to such respected New York City firms as Mocatta Metals and Bache Halsey Stuart Shields, which sell options on gold, silver and other metals futures. Senator Walter Huddleston of Kentucky will soon introduce legislation to permit the sale of options, but only by firms that have a net worth of $10 million or more and fully disclose costs, commissions and fees...
...society takes the name of John Stuart Mill because he called for women's suffrage in the British Parliament in the mid-nineteenth century, Warrick said. "Mill was ridiculed, yet the work of men at the bake sale today is a sign of how far women have come," Warrick said...
Watson spoke for Stuart Eizenstat, assistant to the president for domestic affairs, who cancelled his appearance early this morning in order to help draft an anti-inflation speech which Carter will give tomorrow...