Word: taber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem, cited by Washington Correspondent George Taber, was that many news sources "suddenly went underground when their bosses' jobs went on the line." Taber resorted to an old journalistic gambit: calling high officials directly late at night. He found they "would usually talk−if only to tell you how little they knew...
With the resignation of Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and the shift of G. William Miller from the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve Board to Blumenthal's job at Treasury, the nation's first-string economic team has been radically altered. TIME Business Correspondent George Taber analyzes the prospective impact of these changes...
...important summit meetings in cities 6,000 miles apart. In Tokyo, correspondents from three news bureaus were on hand when leaders of the U.S. and six other petroleum-importing countries met to forge a common strategy on the oil problem. Washington Correspondents Johanna McGeary, Gregory H. Wierzynski and George Taber followed President Carter throughout the talks and on an odyssey that included state visits to Japanese and Korean leaders. Hong Kong Correspondent Ross H. Munro and members of the Tokyo bureau kept tabs on the European and Canadian delegations to the summit, who were housed, inconveniently enough, some miles away...
...Solomon, with Blumenthal's support, argued against doing anything to prop the dollar until its rout had degenerated into a panic-by which time the greenback had sunk 18% against the German mark and 26% against both the yen and Swiss franc. Reports TIME Washington Economic Correspondent George Taber. "The U.S. this year paid a heavy price to learn something about world money markets. One of the tragedies is that there was nobody in the Treasury Department with any firsthand experience of how the markets worked-and the markets knew that...
...bodies from other agencies. Enormously successful in piloting the airline deregulation drive while he was head of the Civil Aeronautics Board, Kahn finds his new job much tougher because he does not have the force of any tangible organization to back him up. Reports TIME Washington Economic Correspondent George Taber: "Economic policy under Carter has been very confused, and adding Kahn to the kitchen has made things worse. Kahn has a distinct disadvantage: he is not responsible for any single area, like the budget or regulation or economic projections. Everything that he wants to do will depend on the willingness...