Word: bernard
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...bahs whose entire interest is in position, perks and, after they have dithered and muddled for a sufficient number of decades, knighthoods. Samson's boss Dicky Cruyer is a particularly loathsome species of well-connected idler, and Deighton takes great pleasure in demonstrating this. " 'Let me tell you something, Bernard,' said Dicky, leaning well back in the soft leather seat and adopting the manner of an Oxford don explaining the law of gravity to a delivery boy . . . 'It could get messy; people with a history of bad decisions are going to be axed very smartly.' Dicky smiled. He could afford...
...monopoly on the revolutionary new weapons, Washington proposed creating an international agency that would take control of all nuclear weapons and material, after which the U.S. would relinquish its arsenal. "We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead," declared former Wall Street Financier Bernard Baruch in presenting the plan to the fledgling United Nations. Moscow's Ambassador, a youthful Andrei Gromyko, put forth a Soviet counterproposal: a ban on the construction of atomic weapons and the destruction of the U.S. arsenal, with no provisions for inspection or enforcement. The cold war was just getting under...
...coverage up to a maximum of $10 million. Now the premium has quintupled to $350,000, and on top of that the hospital has had to come up with another $1 million for its self-insurance trust fund, because the deductible was raised to $2 million. Says Executive Director Bernard Brown: "If you come to our hospital, you pay the price. It is being passed through...
...G.O.P. hopes that this year's elections will cut into the majority party's 34-16 predominance in state capitals. Former Journalist Bernard Kalb quits his post as State Department spokesman over the Administration's reported "disinformation" scheme. Followers of Right-Wing Extremist Lyndon LaRouche are indicted for credit-card scams in a "fund-raising" campaign...
Standing in his familiar position on the podium of the State Department pressroom, Bernard Kalb announced to stunned reporters that he chose to "dissent from the reported disinformation program." Said Kalb, a former correspondent for NBC and CBS: "You face a choice, as an American, as a spokesman, as a journalist, whether to allow oneself to be absorbed in the ranks of silence, whether to vanish into unopposed acquiescence or to enter a modest dissent." He added, "Faith in the word of America is the pulse beat of our democracy...