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Even before Ribicoff strode into HEW's grey concrete headquarters on Independence Avenue, much legislative initiative had been purloined from him. Already, other liberal Democrats had laid the groundwork for the two most important pieces of HEW legislation that would concern him in his 18-month tenure-aid to education and medicare. As it turned out, much of the ill-starred medicare bill was actually written by Congress, with little help from Ribicoff. All he could do was get behind the measures and push them as Administration bills. Yet when the bills ran into trouble, many Democrats pointed...
...Ottawa it was clear that someone had begun laying the groundwork in early May. Washington was so well braced that Canadian representatives were able to sew up the credits ($300 million from the International Monetary Fund. $400 million from the Export-Import Bank, $250 million from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, $100 million from the Bank of England) just two hours after they arrived at IMF headquarters...
...join Europe's Common Market, maybe you can lick it by forming one of your own-or so goes the thinking these days among nations from Chile to the Congo. In Cairo alone over the past fortnight, the groundwork was laid for two new common markets; one would link five Arab nations, and another six African countries (Egypt judiciously proposes to join both). Africa, in fact, is building three common markets. Two more have been launched in Latin America, and an Asian market has been proposed by Malaya, Thailand and the Philippines...
...should exercise "responsibility" in doing so. Said President George Killion of American President Lines, a Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee during the Truman era: "If the rise in steel prices was really needed, it should have been adequately explained to the appropriate federal agencies, with adequate preparation and groundwork. It should not have been a coldblooded action taken out of the blue. A private company's responsibilities to the public transcend its responsibilities to its stockholders...
...satellites, and possibly in China, it is largely the nuclear threat that keeps the West from exploiting Red weakness and rolling back Communism. As Rusk put it at Geneva, the Russian attitude makes no sense unless Moscow has decided that it must continue testing and arming. Said Rusk: "The groundwork has all been laid. Only one element is missing: Soviet willingness to conclude an agreement...