Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advice: forget it! You looked plenty good before and I can't understand why you thought a change was indicated...
...question: Was he going to resign as director of the Office of Management and Budget? With the aw-shucks, bear-like amiability that has characterized his conduct throughout the exhaustive inquiries into his tangled financial dealings, the beleaguered Bert merely grinned and replied, "I've given no thought to that. I'm there to do a job." Then he flew off to his vacation home on Sea Island, Ga., for the long Labor Day weekend...
...Lance has given no thought to the question of resigning-and that is difficult to believe-there are quite a few people who obviously have. Pressure has been building on Lance since last spring, when the first reports surfaced of his financial difficulties and his high-rolling behavior as a banker in Georgia before he joined Old Friend Jimmy Carter's Administration. By last week rumors were cascading through Washington and Atlanta that his resignation, while not necessarily imminent, was inevitable. One well-placed Atlanta businessman, who is close to both Lance and Carter, told friends that Lance...
...softball field across from the South Lawn, the feisty White House shortstop argued noisily with the Washington Press Club runner after they collided. "I thought you were second base," the runner insisted. Fat chance. Second base is one of the few positions that Midge Costanza, presidential assistant and after-hours shortstop, does not play. Of the seven senior staff members at the White House, she serves as Carter's sole woman, Northerner, liberal activist and ethnic (if "ethnic" is defined as one with strong ties to a family homeland). She is an all-purpose outsider on an otherwise...
...Eolia, Mo.; he will mail back a check based on wholesale prices (currently $95 to $110 per lb. for wild and $45 to $50 for cultivated). Though wild ginseng accounts for only 26% of U.S. production, it commands much higher prices than the cultivated variety because it is thought to be more potent. The U.S. cultivated ginseng industry is centered in Marathon County in central Wisconsin, which happens to have the welldrained, acidic soil ideal for growing ginseng. There, an estimated 65 farmers grow about 95% of cultivated U.S. ginseng...