Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Along with all the diversions, Camp David also provides?at the bottom of an elevator shaft sunk 100 ft. into the mountain?a fortress where the President could repair in time of war. Even in peaceful times, security is tight. Rifle-bearing Marines keep watch behind a double row of barbed-wire-topped fences...
Every now and then, residents of Washington's Foggy Bottom neighborhood see a rumpled man with sad beagle eyes bearing a big, round bundle from his bachelor apartment to a coin-operated basement laundry. There goes W. Michael Blumenthal, 52, one of the most potent powers of global finance, carrying his dirty underwear to a washing. Blumenthal surely could afford a maid, even though he took a $534,000 salary cut-from $600,000 down to $66,000-when he left private industry to become a Government servant. But he prefers to perform his own chores because...
...years out of college and in twelve years there, culminating as chief programmer for entertainment shows, he helped keep the Big Eye on top. Moving over to ABC as head of entertainment in 1975, he helped push it past CBS to No. 1. That left only NBC, currently bottom tube on network row. Last week, to lure Silverman away from ABC, NBC gave him the store. It named Silverman president and chief executive officer in charge of not only entertainment but news, sports, stations, everything...
What is the "bottom line...
...findings were not altogether encouraging. As a director of the Institute for American Church Growth in Pasadena, Calif., Arn advocates a "bottom line" analysis of evangelism. In his eyes, the only reliable measure of any crusade's success is the number of people who become "responsible church members." In 1976 a Billy Graham crusade drew 434,100 people to Seattle's Kingdome in eight days, and 18,000 people "came forward" to profess faith in Christ. Arn's survey, done a year later and just released, reveals that of these, 54% were people simply rededicating themselves...