Word: verbalizations
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...feel that the absence of any presidential pressure makes it difficult for them to hold down unreasonable demands from the rank and file. The growing fear is that in the absence of an even relatively mild "incomes policy" (for example, nonmandatory wage and price guidelines and at least strong verbal attacks by the President against excessive increases), there will be pressure for harsher measures. These might include a temporary wage freeze or even outright controls...
...China's leaders respect Kissinger. They know him through their own intelligence and through his writing. Discussing him with an old friend and close comrade-in-politics of Premier Chou one evening in Peking, I was struck by his frank delight at the prospect of crossing verbal swords with such a worthy adversary. "Kissinger?" he said. "There is a man who knows the language of both worlds-his own and ours. With him, it should be possible to talk...
...After Greece was placed under military dictatorship in 1967, the U.S. stopped delivery of all heavy military equipment, such as tanks and field guns. Believing that it had received verbal assurances that the colonels in charge would restore some of the nation's freedoms, however, the Nixon Administration last September formally lifted the embargo on heavy arms and asked Congress this year for nearly $118 million in new aid. Though it was still not happy with the junta's internal policies, Greece remained vital to NATO's southern flank and to the Sixth Fleet, newly challenged...
...taken over McCall's-was negotiating with Boise Cascade to sell both the profitable Review and the money-losing McCall trade-book operation to Boise's publishing subsidiary, Communications/ Research/Machines Inc. CRM puts out the successful Psychology Today and Intellectual Digest. Cousins claimed he had a verbal repurchase agreement with Simon himself. But nothing was on paper, and both the company and Simon denied that there was any agreement...
...forced to fill news columns with detailed stories on the progress of court action and public debate. Three times on its editorial page the paper insisted that it had seen its duty and done it. Byliners James Reston, Tom Wicker and Max Frankel contributed eight columns to the verbal defense fund (see THE NATION). To its credit, the Times turned over its Op-Ed page to notable personalities who were invited to argue both sides of the question. More than a dozen dissertations were printed, and each side got fair play. Among those critical of the Times were Senator Barry...