Word: berte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fishing by himself for hours on end in a Georgia pond or a Pennsylvania trout stream, or jogging through the woods of Camp David, to which he and Rosalynn now retreat almost weekly. Except for Charles Kirbo, the Atlanta attorney who is his confidant, and his former Budget Director, Bert Lance, he has few close friends and virtually none in Washington. He came to office running against Washington, the Congress, special interest groups and politics-as-usual; in many respects he is still against them...
Pogrebin, 41, has done her homework: eight years of research and writing, 16 of marriage and 15 of child rearing went into the book. She says of herself and her husband Bert, 46, a labor lawyer: "For the first few years I'm sure we raised Abigail and Robin, our twins [girls, now 15] the regular way, surrounded by dolls and carriages." In 1970 Pogrebin, a Brandeis graduate at 19 who had risen to vice president of the publishing firm of Bernard Geis Associates, wrote a book called How to Make It in a Man 's World. Preparing...
...goals on kicks of 29 and 37 yards, after New England went ahead for the last time. And Chuck Foreman scored on a 1-yard plunge with five seconds remaining. Ivory's lightning dash at 7:18 of the third quarter followed an 8-yd. TD pass from quarterback Bert Jones to Reese McCall that had given Baltimore a 21-17 lead after coming from behind for the third time...
Sadly, "Why Not The Best?" has not proved to be a rhetorical question over the last four years. But it would be too easy for a pundit to point cynically at Bert Lance as an example of "honesty", Billy Carter as "decent", Presidential Directive #59 as "open", the president's unwillingness to debate as "fair", the induced recession to combat inflation as "compassionate", and Carter's overall record as "competent...
...donation will fund research by a team headed by Dr. Bert Vallee, Cabot Professor of Biological Chemistry, who said research in the field has reached a critical point and seems to indicate that alcoholism may be heavily genetically influenced...