Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the President gave his big speech he sounded like a Baptist minister, declared Cliff. He's the greatest President we've had since Nixon, offered Lou. Wait a minute, came another voice. What about Ford? He wouldn't like that. There was a little more Sanka and waves more of laughter among old friends...
...nations, it is true, there is firmer leadership than half a decade ago. Margaret Thatcher, Britain's new Prime Minister, has taken a decisive, confident line, though her countrymen must wait to see where it leads. Germany's Helmut Schmidt and France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing govern their countries with an effective margin of strength and popularity...
...with that authority have come changes both on the surface and below, hence his recent pin-striped suits and more conservative demeanor. Says one colleague: "He is very serious about things worth being serious about. Like the President, he will not get intellectually stampeded. He has the strength to wait...
...including the windfall-profits tax on oil companies that is supposed to provide all the money for Carter's plans, before the legislators recess on Aug. 3 for four weeks. But by week's end they were making plain that Carter, and the nation, will have to wait. Said Louisiana's canny Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which must approve the tax: "I wouldn't bet on there being $141 billion to support Carter's whole program. I'm not going to force anything through the committee...
...running 15% ahead of last year. Total purchases of pools, chemicals and equipment should reach a record of close to $3 billion. The market is helped by the new attention to fitness and the inflation in costs of faraway vacations, but the driving force is gasoline. Nobody has to wait in line to fill a pool with water-or pay $ 1 a gallon...