Word: talking
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Some advisers want the President to launch Stage Two with a major speech before month's end, possibly in a talk to the Steelworkers Union on Sept. 19. Both the timing and content of Stage Two will be decided by Carter himself, and as usual he is getting conflicting advice. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Federal Reserve Board Chairman William Miller want him to start a tough program immediately. Vice President Walter Mondale and some other advisers also favor a strong program-but after the November congressional elections. A third group, including Domestic Policy Director Stuart Eizenstat, wants...
These steps scarcely add up to anything like a general U.S. corporate retreat-nor should they. In South Africa itself, such a withdrawal is a strategy favored mainly by some white liberals and middle-class black activists. Though they often talk pullout in public, the black militants within the labor force are far more pragmatic in private. A black union leader told McWhirter: "I would say companies should withdraw. But if they did, it would be death...
...years ago, rumors ran that the Faye Dunaway character was actually based on Lin Bolen, a onetime programming v.p. at NBC. This was nasty gossip, because Dunaway played a feral TV executive who might run over her grandmother in pursuit of higher ratings. Bolen survived all the talk and has now re-emerged as the executive producer of W.E.B. Set at a fictional TV network, the show is Bolen's rejoinder to the movie that savaged her. Or at least it is supposed to be. Curiously enough, the heroine of W.E.B. (Pamela Bellwood) is also a predatory TV executive...
There is only one scene--two old Jewish men on bench in a park--and no breaks. The piece just winds up and up and up with rolling variations on melodic conversation--the kind of talk you know immigrant grandfathers share in their...
Most freshman interviewed said they attended the meeting out of curiosity. "There hasn't been much talk about it among freshman," Siddhartha Mazumdar '82, said, "but from what I've heard there has been a kind of futile feeling involved--you know, that was all last year, what can be done about...