Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter understands that he will need all the help he can get to win the war against expense account dining. His experience is limited: almost everybody in his time in Plains ate lunch at home. Equally grave, his logic is dubious. By the National Restaurant Association's reckoning, deductible dining accounts for only about 5% of all purchased meals. The N.R.A. calculates that diners on expense accounts order soft drinks more than twice as often as cocktails, which means that Carter is hacking away at Coke and Dr Pepper, commodities that float the state of Georgia...
Nobody can say she didn't try. Two years ago Jacqueline Onassis joined Viking Press as a consulting editor. Several months ago, however, Viking purchased a potboiler entitled Shall We Tell the President?, a fictional account of an assassination attempt on Teddy Kennedy. "When told of the book, I tried to separate my lives as a Viking employee and a Kennedy relative," said Jackie. Last week New York Times Critic John Leonard called the book "trash" and in a cutting aside added: "Any body associated with its publication should be ashamed of herself." Jackie's resolve dwindled. Said...
That was Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan's version last week of his late-night discussion in New York City with President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance about a new Geneva peace conference (TIME, Oct. 17). Dayan gave his harsh account of the talks-Washington insisted they were "direct," perhaps even "blunt," but far from "brutal"-during a Knesset debate on the working paper on Geneva that he and the American leaders had accepted. The Foreign Minister was defending himself against opposition charges that he had knuckled under to Washington's pressure by tacitly accepting...
...feel I owe the American people an explanation of what happened," said the frail, blue-eyed woman. After a decade of obscurity in Texas, Marina Oswald Porter, 36, was in New York City to face a press conference and stir up publicity for Marina and Lee, an account of her life with Kennedy Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, written by Priscilla Johnson McMillan. "My regret through the years has been immense," said Marina, who now lives on a 17-acre farm outside Dallas with her three children (two by Oswald) and Kenneth Porter, a sewing-machine salesman. Marina, who will share...
Harry Wellington, dean of the Yale Law School: "My guess is that they will reverse the California Supreme Court and send the case back for reexamination. They likely will say it is permissible to take race into account but a predetermined number or quota may not be acceptable. I would not be surprised if there were as many as five or even nine opinions...