Word: banisher
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...Airline Stewardess Sonja Lied: "When it goes off in a restaurant, people think I must be somebody very important." Still, the little boxes do have a knack for going off at the wrong moments: in church, at the symphony, in bed. Husbands, wives and lovers have been known to banish the gadgets from the bedroom. Could those little blurps and beeps be the voice of Big Brother? Says a photographer who has used the device: "To not wear a beeper conveys power...
Mondale set out to convince the West Germans last week-and the Japanese this week-that they should take governmental action to stimulate their economies, thus helping to banish the lingering worldwide recession. But the Vice President found the inflation-wary West Germans reluctant to go beyond their own stimulus package of $4 billion to $5 billion spread over 4 to 5 years -a modest and in Mondale's view disappointing program compared with the Carter Administration's commitment to spend $31.2 billion in 20 months. In Rome, Mondale listened sympathetically to Premier Giulio Andreotti's explanation...
...Last month in Plains, he listened to 16 of them for five hours straight?with one five-minute bathroom break. Only water was served. "Before we won, we served Cokes," said Carter, the closest he came to humor. Reports one participant, Economist Arthur Okun: "He is totally able to banish anything, any mortal concerns, like a crick in the backside or thirst or hunger or anything else." Adds Economist Walter Heller: "We call him 'Iron Pants...
These efforts to banish the reality of power were aborted by our involvement in two world wars...
...must now conduct diplomacy with subtlety, flexibility, persistence and imagination. We must fuse our great national assets of idealism and realism, our moral convictions and our pragmatic bent. We can no longer impose our own solutions; yet our action or inaction will influence events, often decisively. We cannot banish power from international affairs, but we can use our vast power wisely and firmly to deter aggression and encourage restraint and negotiation. We can help construct a wider community of interest among all nations. We must continue to stand for freedom in the world...