Word: warne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that furthered the transition to a Ford White House, he accepted the resignations of two of Nixon's most brass-knuckled aides, Speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan and Lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt. On three evenings he traveled to G.O.P. fund-raising dinners to cheer up dispirited party members and warn that "catastrophic defeat" of Republicans in November might destroy the nation's two-party system and result in a vetoproof Congress...
State and local government officials met in Washington to warn against budget cuts in public service programs, suggesting instead that the White House take the ax to spending for defense and space programs. "If you've seen one moon, you've seen them all," observed Minnesota Governor Wendell Anderson. And so it went, each group contending in ef fect that the burden of fighting inflation should be placed on somebody else. The self-interested pleading took up much time at the summit itself. Charles Luce, chairman of Consolidated Edison of New York, one of the nation...
Though that number seems high-only a prototype of the Anglo-French Concorde and two Soviet TU-144s are now flying-most aviation experts predict that at least 500 SSTs will be in service by the end of the century. If they all fly, the researchers warn, the nitrogen oxides generated would have a thinning effect on the ozone shield. Without this critical protection, people would run a much higher risk of going blind and of contracting skin cancer...
...official Republican Senate leadership&$151;Scott, Tower and Griffin-and two invited Senators representing opposite wings of the party: Goldwater and New York's Liberal Jacob Javits. The group selected Goldwater as the man who ought to seek a meeting with the President to warn him of the tremendous odds against his acquittal. Said Scott: "We agreed that Barry should be our emissary to the President." It was a role long ago foreseen for Goldwater in any ultimate resignation scenario...
Driscoll said it is unlikely that individuals will be able to steal radioactive material from nuclear plants in order to build their own atomic bombs, but did warn of the possibility that as more and more nations develop atomic weapons one of them will use a nuclear bomb...