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(9 of 11) woefully unprepared. The country faced a truly alarming inflation rate, higher than anything the U.S. had known in peacetime; while much of it had to do with international factors beyond U.S. control, it represented, aside from Watergate itself, the Nixon Administration's worst failure. By midsummer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NIXON YEARS: DOWN FROM THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINTOP | 8/19/1974 | See Source »

We will quickly discover that Gerald Ford's limitations, which seem pretty clear, are not going to seem so horrendous. To be sure, it is a handicap that Ford was not elected to the presidency. He is unprepared for the office with respect to administrative experience; that certainly is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: WHERE AMERICA GOES NOW | 8/19/1974 | See Source »

Among its other baleful accomplishments, inflation last week shattered more than a half-century of labor peace in the men's clothing industry. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers, one of the nation's quietest unions, called its first major strike since 1921; 110,000 union members walked off their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Mouse That Roared | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

Since the council's inception in 1970, liberal and conservative caucuses have both nominated slates of candidates every spring. This year, however, only the conservatives nominated a slate and the liberals, caught unprepared, had to ask Rosovsky to add DeVore and Bruneau to the ballot.

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Four Conservatives Win Faculty Council Election | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

Rosovsky knew at the time that he would be dean of the Faculty, and therefore in charge of the council this year, and he told President Bok after the meeting that he intended to avoid having an issue come from the council to the Faculty in such an unprepared state...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Taking It Slow This Time | 3/2/1974 | See Source »

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