Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Department of Energy (DOE) a harassed man with, he swore, 3,999 other dams to worry about. He informed MacArthur that he might have become eligible for a loan by conducting something called a feasibility study, if only the wall had collapsed two months before. Now-too bad-the deadline for feasibility studies had passed...
There is even an argument that it is not worth the effort to continue trying to control strategic arms because SALT so far has accomplished little. Weapons output and costs, for example, do not seem to have decreased under SALT I. And certainly no treaty is better than a bad treaty. Still, it ought to be possible to negotiate an accord, in SALT III or IV, that would stabilize the nuclear balance and provide a high enough level of confidence so that both superpowers could finally brake their strategic arms efforts...
...page memoirs, the size of a small steamer trunk, hoping to get an autograph from the last President they truly and fully liked. "He should get around the country more and speak out," a local Republican committeewoman said with wistful truculence. "Other Presidents have done as bad as he ever did." But a friend of hers was not so sure. "He wouldn't ever want to run for public office again," she said. "He should just lead a quiet life from now on." Four satin-shirted high school musicians played Hail to the Chief. Nixon plunged into the crowd...
...lied in his frantic exertions at self-defense and survival. One aide told him bitterly, according to Theodore H. White, "Those who served you best hate you most." Yet there remains in the U.S. a vague, perhaps unmeasurable feeling that, after all, Watergate was not all that bad, that its catastrophic results were out of all proportion to the wrongs that were done. It is conceivable, goes the reasoning, that he was only defending friends in the White House who had done stupid things, gone too far in their zeal. Or perhaps his only mistake was in getting caught...
...this trade does not only cast a bad light on the board of governors; it dramatized the real problems behind the billion-dollar expansion of professional sports...