Word: containment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House clearly enjoyed revealing the presidential trip. Even the regulars in the briefing room gasped when Jody Powell announced it. At Powell's elbow sat two rare visitors to the press room, Presidential Aides Hamilton Jordan and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Barely able to contain their pleasure, they had dropped by to relish the reporters' surprise...
...barrage of rhetoric, which seemed a shade inflated itself, was supporting the Administration's 1979 version of a hospital cost containment bill that passed the Senate last year but failed by one vote to clear a House committee. Vowing to lead a more determined fight for passage this time, the President plugged the bill at a special White House press conference last week. He cited an alarming statistic: only ten years ago, a patient paid $533 for an average stay in a hospital; the average hospitalization now costs $1,634. An HEW study found that Americans spent less than...
Last week Yannacone had reason to be pleased. Citing an "alarming" incidence of miscarriages among women in Alsea, Ore., where there has been considerable forest spraying, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered an emergency ban on two popular herbicides, both of which contain dioxin. One is 2,4,5-T, an ingredient of the Viet Nam defoliant, Agent Orange. The other, Silvex, is used in many popular weed killers...
...could take some ironic satisfaction from this conflict among the Communist powers, and in Viet Nam of all places-the prospect of a wider war was deeply disturbing. If the Soviets became involved, would the fighting spread beyond Viet Nam? And was there any way for the U.S. to contain it? "We will not get involved in a conflict between Asian Communist states," Carter promised last week. But the only remedies he offered were those of the mediator-"to express our deep concern ... to encourage restraint...
...ways and means committee, declined last week to join the other 28 states that have endorsed a constitutional convention. But the economists agree that Brown has caught on to quite an issue because there is tremendous popular pressure rising in the U.S. to do something to contain inflationary Government spending. Politicians everywhere hear complaints from their constituents about the Government's inability to control the budget. So legislators are seeking advice from economists on ways to put legal limits on deficits...