Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choice," he reflected recently, "but I can defeat whom I don't want" - meaning Chaban. Chaban, however, has picked up other important support, notably from Debré, who has endorsed him for President. As a prelude to an eventual campaign for president, Chaban has assembled a brain trust of advisers and thinkers, but so far he is deliberately keeping a low profile. Says an aide: "Why should he start taking a position on every issue that pops up? He can only lose...
Certainly the record of major governments in dealing with inflation gives the world's consumer little reason to trust anything they say about prices. For the most part, it is a story of weak, erratic and often misdirected policies. Because of its enormous impact on the world economy, the failure of the U.S. to keep prices caged is especially unnerving...
...opposite, something that members of Congress until now have only dared mutter among themselves. It is the horror of the spectacle of a President of the U.S.-a friend, a Republican, a national figure for three decades-being revealed as a criminal while holding the nation's highest trust. The growing reality of this has made a lot of important people come face to face with themselves and consider their own place in the history now being written. We are in a period when silence is its own statement. But there most assuredly will be more voices raised...
...Total Trust. Despite five years of close association, Kissinger and the President have a relationship that, in the view of White House observers, is best described as formal and correct rather than personal. Nixon's trust in Kissinger, on diplomatic issues, is total. The Secretary recognizes that the quickest way to lose his negotiating flexibility would be to exceed the President's instruction. Sums up Presidential Aide Alexander Haig: "I think the President considers Henry a unique national institution...
...Reserve Fund Inc., began accepting purchases from the public in October 1972. In the short time since then, it has attracted $138 million from 10,000 accounts (minimum: $1,000 each)-even though it has been promoted by word of mouth among investment counselors, brokers, corporations and bank trust departments. Bruce Bent, vice president and treasurer, says that many people, "punchy from the stock market, are taking their money out and putting it in the fund." Indeed, about a third of the investments have come from brokers who have put to work cash that their clients have received from sales...