Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comes near to relishing presidential perquisites, like the box at the opera, Air Force One and Camp David. He does not carry his own suit bag or his briefcase so much, sees more the need to act presidential...
...answer was no: the ruling Christian Democrats firmly rejected the kidnapers' demand to bargain for an exchange of jailed terrorists. They did propose that the international Catholic relief organization, Caritas, act as intermediary to seek other "possible ways" to save Moro's life. In a dramatic eleventh-hour move, Pope Paul appealed directly to the kidnapers. "I beg you on my knees, free the Honorable Aldo Moro simply, unconditionally," the Pope wrote in his own microscopic handwriting on his personal notepaper, "not so much because of my humble and affectionate intercession, but because of his dignity...
...regulatory laws because we have the staff and the big-time lawyers to do so. But most small business people do not. They cannot even find out what the law is. There are, for example, 1,200 interpretations by the Federal Reserve staff of the Truth in Lending Act. Now 90% of the more than 14,000 commercial banks in the country have fewer than 100 employees. If you gave every staff member those regulations and started them reading, they wouldn't be finished by next year...
More than most players, though, Glenn Fine defies the kind of abstract description that statistics give. His act is visual; as with ballet, you must see Fine's game to understand just how talented he is. Fine crosses over dribbling as well as anyone who has ever played in the IAB, and he has the uncanny knack of seeming to float down the court, before--POP--threading a pass through the defense, or launching a gutty drive down the line...
WORST OF ALL, however, is the flagrant disregard displayed in the Corporation's statement for the moral issue at the heart of the matter. By refusing to act, for the time being, in a positive manner towards the repressive minority government in South Africa, the Corporation continues to passively support the systematic subjugation of South African blacks. The Corporation magnanimously agrees that apartheid is reprehensible, yet refuses to do what little it can to hasten its end. No one believes that divestiture, in any form, by the University would signal the economic death-knell of South Africa, but the Corporation...