Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begun to place tiles in the mosaic, there are still huge blanks. A less imperfect portrait eventually will be seen, but it will always be less than a whole description, because, as Haldeman says, Nixon is the Man of a Thousand Facets. Each of us was presented with the aspect Nixon instinctively deemed most advantageous at a given time. None of us can be free of Watergate's surprises until the last White House tape is played and we learn what Nixon was saying to others in our absence...
...many observers, the worst aspect of Rupert Murdoch's head-first plunge into the New York media biz two years ago was the possible impact of his sex-and-violence, paper-hawking outlook on the Village Voice. So far it hasn't been too bad, although the past few weeks exhibit a discouraging trend. Certainly the damage hasn't been as complete as the devastation Murdoch brought to the New York Post and New York magazine. In the first year of the mad magnate's reign, the Voice went for hotter, sexier cover stories, but then came a period during...
...aspect I must commend Professor Said's approach because it reflects an attitude that social and national activities should be seen and explained in a wide historical context. For every individual's life is composed of elements, physical and spiritual, that he inherits from his ancestors. Moreover, for an individual to transcend his finiteness, he must relate himself to his heritage and bequeath it to his children...
Another complicated aspect of the dodge involved a relay system of accounting by which one company fed another its paper assets before the end of its fiscal year. This enabled each of the shells to meet the country's minimum conditions to be treated as a firm and thus qualify for the favorable tax rates...
...daughter of one of the vice presidents of a New England electronics firm, Coles seeks to and succeeds in portraying those characteristics of the rich which preserve the inequalities of American society. His interviews with the Indians, Chicanos and Eskimos are less directed toward understanding a specific aspect of their lives and are less likely to attract the attention of readers because his writing is not particularly analytical or incisive...