Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee also recommended that the minority subcommittee send an unranked list of selected applicants to the central committee, Michele D. Holmes, a student member of the committee, said yesterday. Previously the subcommittee ranked its applicants before submitting the list to the central committee...
...coal strike, White House Press Secretary Jody Powell discussed hardships in the "ECAR region." When reporters asked about the acronym, Powell blurted, "That is a little bureaucratic jargon I picked up. I don't know what it means." He and others learned that the acronym stands for East Central Reliability Council, a group of utility companies. They were to learn more from Representative Gerry Studds of Massachusetts, who wrote his constituents: "Air Force to do EIS on PAVE PAWS." Translation: there was to be an environmental impact statement about a type of radar: Precision Acquisition of Vehicle Entry-Phased...
...prospects of a recession next year; the OPEC decision significantly augments both problems and makes them that much harder to deal with. Reflecting the difficulties ahead, the dollar fell an average of 2.25% against major European currencies last week until it was temporarily rescued by large-scale intervention from central banks. The Dow Jones dropped 17.84, to 787.51 before rallying at week...
...raked in nearly $1 million in individual contributions from those who make their living in television, movies and music. And that was before last week, when on Thursday night alone, Gore and the Democrats raised $6.5 million with the industry's help. The evening included a party at the Central Park West apartment of Miramax Films chairman Harvey Weinstein, whose company has produced such fare as the NC-17-rated "Kids," a chic portrayal of teen depravity. (At Weinstein's the vice president did not criticize Hollywood.) Then came a starry concert at Radio City Music Hall that featured raunchy...
...Times passes over all that thin ice by an act of rhetorical levitation, as if there were no such thing as gravity. Its central conceit is that "Mrs. Clinton is capable of growing beyond the ethical legacies of her Arkansas and White House years." We must all applaud this generous endorsement of the doctrine of redemption - no sinner but can be saved. Forget the carpetbagging, forget the years of lying, forget the ruthless opportunism. The Times editorial page, which has been fiercely critical for years about Whitewater and other Clinton scandals, forgives all of that now. Edifyingly, the capacity...