Word: successful
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...stop attacking each other." Claimed a spokesman for Otto Eckstein's Data Resources, Inc., a highly respected economic think tank in Lexington, Mass.: "The President has taken as tough an approach to wage-price standards as is possible short of statutory controls. The program has a reasonable prospect of success." General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones agreed, explaining: "It was reassuring to hear the President place his main emphasis on measures aimed at the basic causes of inflation: excessive Government spending and regulations that add needlessly to the cost of doing business." While voicing some reservations, Carter Murphy, head of Southern...
...sign it?" As his listeners roared "Yes!" Carter grinned and replied: "I will take your advice. I have decided to sign the bill." Then turning again to inflation, he spoke out for his plan as "badly needed." Said he: "It is tough. It is necessary. It is fair." The success of his fight against inflation will obviously hinge on whether enough Americans share in that judgment...
Alfred Edward Kahn is obviously a gambling man. The outgoing chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board says of his new job as anti-inflation chief: "The chances for success are far less than what I had [at the CAB]. I think we're dealing with something that's a hundred times more important, but the chances of success are one-thousandth...
...healthy competition along with lower fares. Economist Kahn is such an impassioned deregulator that he promoted the liquidation of his own empire. He supported a bill that will weaken the powers of the CAB and phase it out of existence by 1985. Said he: "I will consider myself a success in this job if there is no job when I leave...
Perhaps the most basic barrier to women's political success is outright sexism?a feeling, among women as well as men, that a woman's place is in the home, not the House. Kansas Democratic Congresswoman Martha Keys, who is married to Indiana Congressman Andrew Jacobs, has an opponent who used the slogan A MAN TO RELY ON. When Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso ran four years ago, she was confronted by her opponent's slogan CONNECTICUT CAN'T AFFORD A WOMAN GOVERNOR. Bella Abzug observes that sexism surfaces particularly quickly when voters feel a woman's style challenges traditional notions...