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...fiscal year budget to bed in December, had it printed up and sent to the Congress in January," he said. "I don't intend to see that budget spending level increased." Carter sounded stubborn, but businessmen as well as Congressmen say they have become accustomed to Carter talking tougher than he acts. Told that congressional leaders believe he will back down on his veto threats, the President arched forward and said with a rolling sonority: "Anyone who depends on the belief that I will not veto a spending bill that breached the integrity of my budget is laboring under...
...hold many long-distance swimming records for both sexes and have run men into the ground during ultramarathon races 50 miles long. Says Dr. Joan Ullyot, a physiologist at San Francisco's Institute of Health Research and a world-class marathoner herself: "The evidence suggests that women are tougher than...
...political meetings between Carter's domestic tacticians Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell fed riveting (even exaggerated) language into Carter's speeches. Brzezinski, back from China and enjoying new resonance with his President, hit the airwaves via Meet the Press with still sterner talk. Although he went along with the tougher approach, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance moved from Cabinet Room to presidential office counseling his brand of calm deliberation, which in some ways is closer to Jimmy Carter's true nature. Vance's soothing hand could be felt in the rush of events while NATO met, the U.N. debated...
...mission over there--"simply to annihilate"--also began to bother him. "We'd take an area and a few months later go back and take the same piece of land again." And it was hot, hotter than the other wars, and tougher. He had contracted malaria and suffered a concussion from a grenade. "I wanted to live," he says matter-of-factly...
Organizing a Harvard-Radcliffe student union would be a much tougher job than writing a document to establish a junior Congress, but if we really want to end our helpless acquiescence to Harvard's policies, the process starts in our own departments and in our own Houses...