Word: unless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bell promised that Curran would not be overruled unless "the special counsel's decisions were grossly inconsistent with well-established prosecutorial standards." The Attorney General also said that any veto by Heymann of Curran's request would be reported to Congress and the public. In those circumstances-and the certainty that Republicans would be screaming, "Cover-up!"-Heymann would have needed very strong nerves indeed to veto any request by Curran to prosecute. Said Heymann last week: "I can't imagine...
...outlays that the share of these "uncontrollables" has spiraled from less than $100 billion then to $404 billion in fiscal 1980. In the past ten years, they have jumped from 64% to 76% of the federal budget. Thus less than one-quarter of the budget is subject to paring-unless and until Congress is prepared to curb the uncontrollables. They seem politically sacrosanct because they are mostly transfer payments that go directly to citizens-for Social Security, Medicare, public assistance, veterans' benefits, civil service and military retirement funds. Nobody wishes to deprive further the aged and infirm, the poor...
...down charges that he misled the Senate, and this winter the Justice Department simply dropped charges against the ITT officials. Now it appears that the FBI case is also in danger of aborting. Why? National security. Lawyers for the accused insist that their clients cannot get a fair trial unless sensitive Government secrets are brought out. Rather than disclose them in court, the Justice Department has been avoiding trial altogether...
...friend whom Carter brought in to refurbish the President's image. "We expected the press to give more attention to issues, to be bet ter informed," he complains. Back in 1976 Carter had said to Playboy: "The traveling press have zero interest in any issue unless it's a matter of making a mistake. What they're looking for is a 47-second argument between me and another candidate or something like that...
There's nobody in the back of this plane who would ask an issue question unless he thought he could trick me into some crazy statement...