Word: arens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House Democrats were outraged by the memo, which they regarded as authorizing a semipurge list. Several called the White House to complain. "We are keeping score," admitted a presidential aide. "We are looking at people who help us that we can help. But it doesn't mean we aren't helping others." The aide said the memo was "not accurate"−and even if it had been, "it was dumb to write it down." Declared Pinson, after the memo was obtained by TIME: "It is out of date. We have re-evaluated our plans...
...Brown's aides admits: "The Commander in Chief has decided that the defense budget is $126 billion and that the emphasis must be on NATO and its readiness to fight a conventional ground war. There the Navy plays a secondary role. Given that, the Navy's plans just aren't very realistic...
Dwight H. Perkins, professor of Economics at Harvard and chairman of the department here, disagreed yesterday with Brown's view of the case. He argues that MIT "has a different situation from ours. MIT is primarily a graduate school in economics--there aren't many undergrads. For that reason, they can afford to devote more personalized attention to students," he said...
Twist 1: it turns out that nuclear power right now is neither safe, cheap nor reliable. Twist 2: we are asked to put our fears aside and have faith in the nuclear industry because of its long history, though we aren't to expect too much from it because it's really too young to have any of the real answers. Twist 3: we are told that environmentalists want us living in the Stone Age, but we don't have the technology for that...
...rallied. "You know, it's not as though something like this rolls along every day. I realize that Sammy Davis Jr., Shecky Greene, and David Berkowitz were all higher than me on the list, but here I am and there they are...These college kids, ya know, they aren't so bad after all, what with your hippies and all, with the flowers and the hair and the Watusi. My parents told me they wanted me to go into plastics so they wrapped me up in a Glad...