Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Betty Ford checked in alone at the hospital's alcohol and drug rehabilitation center. Reason: a day earlier, her husband had left for a series of college lectures in Alabama and golf with Pro Arnold Palmer and Football Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant. Thus, even at a time of family crisis, the Fords stuck to the pattern of their nearly 30 years in politics: despite concerns at home, he hits the road to build support for the G.O.P. Last month Ford spent nearly half his time traveling, speaking at seven G.O.P. fund-raising affairs, three business conventions and three college...
...self-made millionaire lawyer-businessman, Strauss, 59, mixes Machiavellian tactics with mirth, backslapping with cool competence. As chief U.S. trade negotiator, a job he will retain, he demonstrated his unusual bargaining techniques in Tokyo earlier this year when he grabbed his Japanese counterpart, Nobuhiko Ushiba, in a Texas bear hug and bellowed, "Brother Ushiba, you're crazy as hell...
...Friday, to close at 795, the highest since early January. By day's end, 52.3 million shares, worth $1.4 billion, had changed hands-both records. The previous high volume was 44 million shares on Feb. 20, 1976, and hopeful analysts were wondering whether the 1977-78 bear market had finally ended...
...BOYCOTT serves a two-fold purpose. First, if it catches on, it may cut into Stevens's profit margin; in this case, the old adage, "money talks," is unfortunately apropos. More likely, though, the boycott will succeed in bringing broad-based political pressure to bear on recalcitrant executives; it might even force the government to take more drastic action in enforcing...
That Steinberg made that passage, few of his colleagues doubt. But he is one of the very few American graphic artists to have done so; not even the big popular illustrators of earlier years, N.C. Wyeth or Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell or Charles Dana Gibson, can quite bear that claim. Esquire magazine's design director, Milton Glaser, sees Steinberg as a cartoonist who "by some extraordinary series of shifts became a major artist ... It is very hard to truthfully understand what happened to him on the way, not only in terms of self-transformation but in terms...