Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter moved to end the meeting, O'Neill broke in. "Wait a minute, Mr. President," he said. "I think we'd be terribly remiss if we don't talk about some package to stimulate the economy." "You're right," Carter said cautiously. "We've got to have some kind of action to give confidence to the people." But he did not endorse either a jobs program...
...been oversensitive to the point of neurosis. Among dozens of executives interviewed by TIME correspondents, few were nearly as frightened as the plunge on Wall Street might lead a headline reader to believe. To the contrary, though the business community voted solidly for Ford, executives are taking a relaxed, wait-and-see attitude toward the forthcoming Carter Administration. They hope that the new President can indeed get the business recovery moving again, and that his populist oratory during the campaign will not be followed by any significant anti-business action...
...blame for the country's troubles. Some fault themselves for being too eager to lend to the unsophisticated nation in the expectation of high returns. Says one Western banker: "What was needed here earlier in the '70s was a guy in a green eyeshade saying 'Wait a minute.' Mobutu didn't know he was in trouble. Western institutions weren't telling him he was getting into trouble. Mobutu has learned a lesson, but the West has too-not to come into a country like Zaïre greedy to lend money...
...states are planning distinctive touches of their own for the boxes such as a tone sounder that lets motorists know that their signal has been received. In Illinois, the department of transportation has attached a sign on each box telling the motorist how long he can expect to wait for help. As one official explains: "At midnight, five minutes can seem like an hour...
...advantage, but in practical terms, the only people who successfully run for Congress at age 29 are either personally wealthy, blessed with a famous name, or are war heroes. Markey was none of these, and most of the politicians in his home town told him that he should wait, rather than run at such an early...