Word: behind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when it comes to the political strategy behind the handshakes, Goodell is amazingly naive for a man who served in the House of Representatives for ten years before his appointment to the Senate. Part of this naivete is his incredible integrity and propensity to speak his mind even if his audience is not especially receptive to the subject...
...November Action Committee (NAC), a loose coalition of radicals grown out of last year's New Left, will probably abide by the Moratorium, one spokesman said, "but organizationally will ignore it." "This is no way to end the war," he added. "You can get the whole Senate behind it and nothing will happen. You can even get Nixon reading a statement condemning this and all wars and it won't make any difference. This war is about real things going on, we need to positively support...
...elegance, Rosenquist's for their painterly quality, Jim Dine's for their intimacy. But each seems to have settled into the styles established by his own success. The one among them who seems to have continuously moved into progressively new and different areas, blithely leaving his successes behind him, is Claes Oldenburg...
According to generally accepted financial theory, this should have been an invitation to disaster. The assumption behind the IMF fixed-exchange rules is that uncertainty about what a major currency is worth from day to day will paralyze world trade and investment. Instead, trading in German money was heavy but orderly, and the mark's price rose 6%, to about 2610. Britain's Exchequer Chancellor Roy Jenkins summed up the situation as "very calm, all very calm...
...Behind all the maneuvering is the scheduled airlines' growing fear of the increasingly popular cut-rate charter lines, which offer high-season round-trip Atlantic fares for as little as $150. The scheduled carriers are particularly disturbed by abuses of the "affinity rule," which decrees that only members of bona fide organizations can take charter flights. Recently, a group calling itself the "International Order of Old Bastards" arranged a charter trip from the U.S. to Mallorca. Unamused, Pan Am executives complained to the CAB; meanwhile the flight was canceled...