Word: succession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notable achievements of the brief Ford Administration has been its success in selling foreign governments on a go-slow approach to economic growth in order to hold down world inflation. At the economic summit in Puerto Rico last June, President Gerald Ford and the government chiefs of Britain, West Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan agreed that they would follow cautious policies aimed at a moderate annual expansion of world production, say 5%, through 1980. Today it appears that the Administration was altogether too persuasive: in most industrial countries, as in the U.S., expansion has slowed to a crawl...
...labor chiefs and business leaders. They will be asked to come to the White House to help the Administration devise a set of guidelines for wage and price increases that the President will then urge unions and companies to follow. Though the guideline strategy had only limited success in the 1960s, Carter is committed to another go at it to help keep inflation down while hoping to stimulate the economy to faster, more sustained growth...
Edward Schultz and Sadako Yukoyama, both former New England Conservatory students, realized Dautricourt's innovative conception of the flute's musical possibilities with considerable success. This is not at all as conventional as it sounds, for, more and more, composers like Dautricourt are requiring from wind performers new technical tricks such as playing two and three notes simultaneously, tone bending, quarter-tones or notes at smaller intervals than half-steps, and percussion effects...
...players are even beginning to sound like McCurdy. Asked what spurred the team to an unexpected success Saturday afternoon, hirsute-faced captain Jeff Campbell dead-panned: "The bearded look on the captain...
Sanders looks for team rebounding to be the linchpin of the hoopsters' brand of ball if the season is to be a success. "We don't be in the game against strong teams if we let them get a second chance to score," he says. "We're talking a ball-control type offense so we can control the pace of the game," he says...