Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evaluating different meal plans, however, it is important to keep in mind that the price of current meal contracts already takes into account the fact that most students eat only 14 meals per week. If all students ate the 21 allowable meals, the amount of food consumed would necessarily rise, and board contracts would be substantially higher than they...
Seductive beauty and ageless craftsmanship account largely for the drawing power of Tut's treasures. "They are so fresh they kind of wipe out time," says Thomas Moving, who as former head of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum organized the show and has written the best-selling Tutankhamun: The Untold Story (Simon and Schuster; $12.95). Although many of the exhibit's 55 pieces are gold, Hoving maintains that the value of the collection is "not a critical part of its popularity." (Asked how much it is worth, he replies airily: "$416,872,417.68, plus green stamps...
...them stick in your memory like Georgia mud to your boots--an old, nearly-blind mule trader sagely discusses the art and artifices of a trade that is almost dead; a poacher takes Crews alligator hunting in the Florida swamps. And now in A Childhood, we have an account which blends the best of the columns and the best of the novels with the life that produced Crews' brutal imagination...
...prophetic, cables from underlings. Others blamed Presidential National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, whose theory it is that the U.S. must bolster "regional influentials" like Iran. That theory, said the critics, was based on the false assumption that military might plus oil wealth equals political stability and failed to take account of the corruption, mismanagement and religious opposition that undercut the Shah's influence over his own people...
Such pressures have given Donna an ulcer and a penchant for philosophy. "The furor over Love to Love You Baby was certainly good for my bank account," she remarks, "but it gave me a one-sided image as a sex queen. But a person is not one thing." One person Donna would like to resemble is Diana Ross. "I've always admired her," says Donna. "Since I was a young girl Ross has been working her behind off, getting her credits and paying her dues. She has been through a lot and attained a great level." And of course Donna...