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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their first official meeting, Callaghan brought Carter a bolt of cloth for a suit in which pinstripes were made of tiny J.C.s, their common initials. It is not likely that Carter and Thatcher will develop an equally close relationship. "Margaret will start off despising Jimmy Carter," conceded one top Tory, "but responsibility will mellow her." There will be no lessening of Britain's commitment to friendship with the U.S., but the Tories will not supply the automatic support for Carter's foreign policy that was a special hallmark of the Callaghan government...
Accordingly, the new Tory government she named on Saturday emerged as a diverse team ranging across a wide political spectrum. To be sure, a number of relatively unknown conservatives who make up Thatcher's "inner team" won places in the government. But many top jobs went to relatively liberal party veterans who have reservations about Thatcher's attitudes and judgment, and who will act as a brake on some of her more abrasive economic, social and foreign policy views...
...from getting new-oil prices by drilling new wells into old reservoirs after 1973. The companies are accused of, among other things, ignoring this provision whenever they actually struck new oil in an old-oil field. Instead of selling it as old oil, they are said to have charged top dollar...
...come to show Henry Jackson's Senate Energy Committee the converted 1979 Mercury Capri that they contend gets more than 57.2 m.p.g. in city driving and nearly 80 m.p.g. on the highway. They say that it also accelerates from 0 to 60 in 17 seconds and has a top speed of 105 m.p.h...
...high-achievers can receive bonuses of up to 50% of their salary. To celebrate the company's ascension to the $1 billion sales mark, 39 senior officers and their spouses will be treated to a three-week trip through the Orient this month. More important, says Carlson, "my top executives will retire as millionaires...