Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...safety: Any head of state is usually a target for assassination. I'm not worried. We all live a certain time. When the time is up, we go, and that's that. I go everywhere. I drive my own car. I usually like to drive in the first car of a convoy because that way I see more of my people and my country. That's what I live for, and that's what...
Opposition may come from the Treasury, where some officials not only dislike the revenue loss but also worry about breaking the link between the replacement life of a product and its tax depreciation. Such a break, according to this argument, might cause favoritism for certain industries. The steel industry, which now depreciates its assets rather slowly, would get a better advantage than the auto industry, which depreciates its assets more rapidly. In addition, groups that oppose tax cuts for business will fight the speedy depreciation. However, these opponents are in the minority. Most Congress watchers believe that if the business...
...people ask him before lunch. To each, Sykes replies, 'Fine.' He telephones a doctor. A receptionist says the next available appointment is three months distant. Sykes says he has an emergency. 'What seems to be the trouble?' asks the woman. Sykes cannot tell her the truth, for he is certain she is incapable of believing that feet can be switched like umbrellas traded in a restaurant mixup, and will think him mad and dispatch him to psychiatry...
...comparing results from more than 30 patients suffering varying degrees of depression, they were able to establish two groups: those below a certain urine level responded to relatively low dosages of a test drug; those above either did not respond or had to be given stiff dosages...
...Nixon for years, but at last grew retchingly ill when he read the transcripts of the White House tapes. After much puzzlement, he blamed Nixon's behavior on "sleeping pills and demons." Graham has always expressed a truculent love of authority, a desire for social discipline, for a certain orderliness that he seems to consider almost a necessity of the soul. He has been capable of aggressive anti-intellectualism. He displayed what Frady calls his "capacity to trivialize the awesome" when, after the My Lai massacre, he submitted: "We have all had our My Lais...