Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contest draws its support from a trust fund created by the son of William L. Putnam in 1938, and is now administered by George Putnam, treasurer of the College, William Putnam's grandson...
...solid power base to count on. He won by putting together a remarkable but shaky coalition-liberals, conservatives, old-line Democrats, blacks, Southern rednecks, Northern hardhats. He seemed to promise something to everyone, and stressed themes that cut across ideological barriers: welfare reform, Government reorganization and, even more fundamentally, trust ("I'll never...
...keeping with his campaign promise that top officials in his Administration would publicly disclose their assets and liabilities as a step toward restoring Americans' trust in their Government, Jimmy Carter last week issued financial statements for 15 Cabinet-level officials. If this was full disclosure, maybe total concealment deserves another try. Instead of announcing actual assets and liabilities, the White House used letter symbols ranging from A ($1 to $5,000) to E ($100,000 or more...
...Energy Data Administration. This is a pet project of Schlesinger's, a relentless dataphile, who is dismayed about the lack of reliable information on such vital matters as reserves of natural gas and production possibilities of gas and oil. He does not trust industry figures or believe they tell Government enough to make sound policy decisions. In a tactful way, Carter made the same point in his news conference: "I want to increase the surety that the reserve-supply data given us by the oil companies and others are accurate...
...characters in John Cheever's fiction, suburbia is a definite step down. His Wapshot family, for example, traced its lineage to colonial New England and to the patriarchal Leander Wapshot who advised his clan to "bathe in cold water every morning. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord...