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When Bert Lance made a long-scheduled appearance at the Southern Governors Conference in San Antonio last week, it was inevitable that someone would ask him the question: Was he going to resign as director of the Office of Management and Budget? With the aw-shucks, bear-like amiability that has characterized his conduct throughout the exhaustive inquiries into his tangled financial dealings, the beleaguered Bert merely grinned and replied, "I've given no thought to that. I'm there to do a job." Then he flew off to his vacation home on Sea Island...
...Aw gee, I'm sorry sir, those are just for me and my good buddies, sir. Not for boys from the College...
Dressler said this phenomenon is similar to being able to read a string of letters such as "I saw a cat" divided differently into "Is aw ac at." In this example, as in most sentences and genetic sequences, the alternative reading is nonsense...
...stones," one of which had a battery-powered light for use when the dim-lit bedroom was too dark. Except for rare occasions, he spurned his collection of hearing devices. "He could understand if you stood face to face and talked loudly," Stewart says. "But often he would say, 'Aw shit, write...
...wealthy man (estimated worth: $3.1 million) and president of the Atlanta-based National Bank of Georgia, the state's fifth largest, Lance is fond of assuming the guise of an "aw-shucks" country banker. But, says one of Carter's top aides, "Bert is smart, he's tough, he's a good manager and he understands politics-and those are the things Jimmy wants...