Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elegant third-floor corner office of the Treasury Building will lead to some changes in style. He is the kind of "team player" that Carter seems to prize. From his days as chairman of the Textron Corp., Miller has had a reputation for arguing hard and voicing stinging criticism behind closed doors; out in public, however, he joins ranks and forcefully presents the majority position. But Miller can also be stubborn. Blumenthal discovered this last spring when he tried to lean hard on his old friend Bill to have the Fed raise interest rates. Concluding that Blumenthal was wrong, Miller...
...cars, houses and shops that line the streets surrounding Wrigley have proven prime targets for the four-bag shots that regularly pass the low wire fences behind the bleachers. There's no Fenway Green Monster to grab well-tagged liners, and the neighborhood kids make a regular habit of shagging street-bound balls off the bats of major league sluggers: souvenirs that come even without the cost of admission...
...Jaffe doesn't turn in much of a performance, however. If you want to see the finale you have to wade through 300 pages of tedium. Expect to be disappointed. There is no splashy ending, no grand resolution. Jaffe just kind of shuffles off stage, leaving her limp figures behind...
This is in contrast to most analysts, who in their advocacy of specific energy sources, ignore the political realities behind their calculations...
...late, NASA has had little to gloat about. While Skylab showered down on Australia and the surrounding sea last week, the space shuttle was still in Florida, months behind launch schedule. Meanwhile, high above the earth, two orbiting Soviet cosmonauts headed toward a new record (140 days) for living in space. Normally, all this would have cast a pall over this week's celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the first lunar landing. But beleaguered space agency officials could take pride in one spectacular performance: that of their wide-ranging robots, which are scattered over much of the solar...