Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haldeman's account was nonetheless that of a key White House insider. And although he cautiously couched his accusations as beliefs, rather than provable assertions of fact, he charged that Nixon personally launched the Watergate bugging operation that cost him the presidency, that Nixon was part of the cover-up from the very day on which his re-election committee's burglars were arrested in Democratic national headquarters, that just three days after police had seized his agents Nixon himself erased 18% minutes of a White House tape that showed his complicity in the crime...
...most melodramatic is Haldeman's account of what he claims "may have been the most dangerous of all the confrontations this nation has ever faced." According to Haldeman, U.S. intelligence learned in 1969 that the Russians had moved "nuclear-armed divisions" along the Ussuri River within two miles of the Chinese border. Aerial photos showed "hundreds of Soviet nuclear warheads stacked in piles. Eighteen thousand tents for their armored forces erected overnight in nine feet of snow...
...that wasn't so bad, was it? Most conventional reviewers would long before now have lapsed into an annoying account of this (or any) show's funniest scenes and most memorable lines; I'll be charitable and leave that for some other time, because I really don't want to spoil it for you in any way. The Hasty Pudding Show, as a friend rightly pointed out, is, after all, the longest-running, most extensively reviewed "sure thing" at Harvard every year--a great, vaguely theatrical experience for those hundred or so Bermudabound Fortunates who are directly involved, and, apparently...
...area of American life is personal service so precious as in medical care. Here, too, the computer has become a humanizing factor; the patient tends to give a more candid account of his symptoms, regimen and medical history to a machine programmed to ask the proper preliminary questions than to a harassed and possibly intimidating doctor...
...civilian employment, women are not much better off. Only a third of them work outside the home, mostly in lower-paying jobs. Women account for only 9% of the higher-grade civil service positions, 2% of full professors, 1% of the nation's engineers. Only 6% of working women are employers or self-employed. Though the law calls for equal pay for equal work, many women are paid less than men for similar tasks, and, with a few exceptions, women are legally barred from nighttime work on the theory that it is potentially injurious to their health...