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...policy of "interchangeability"-the practice of having deputies regularly fill in for their bosses-Cheney in the past year has spent almost as much time with the President at home and on the road as Rumsfeld has. Like Rumsfeld, Cheney will run Ford's White House staff and implement his decisions. But he is not expected to be a manipulator of policies and personalities as his old boss...
Ceiling Disliked. Farmers, grain dealers, farm-implement makers, railroads and shipping companies had all pushed hard for a long-term grain deal, knowing that without one the ban on further sales to the Soviets would not be lifted. But when the deal was announced many farmers angrily branded it unjustified Government interference in world grain markets. They objected to the requirement that the Soviets negotiate before buying more than 8 million tons a year, contending that the limit would prevent them from recouping sales lost during the moratorium...
...Sale argues, Nixon went too far, extending the powers of his presidency in order to implement his program of cowboy reforms and antagonizing important yankee interests in the process. He attempted to turn the clock back to the pre-FDR era by making sizable cutbacks in welfare allocations, sometimes even impounding funds to prevent the implementation of congressional actions. The Establishment thought these minimal forms of income redistribution were necessary to preserve social order, Sale argues, while Nixon preferred to "guarantee domestic tranquility" through overtly repressive means. The expansion of FBI domestic surveillance, abuse of the Internal Revenue Service...
...said the goal for each of the schools is to implement the "revolving concept," by which schools with excellent loan collection can sustain the loan program without new federal capital, supporting new loans with income from outstanding loans...
Robert H. Chapman, professor of English and director of the Loeb, said last night that nothing has been done to implement the report's recommendations, and that the as-yet-unformed Faculty Council on a Drama Center will probably handle implementation...