Word: chases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every day, four or five bulging mailbags arrive on the 23rd floor of the Time-Life Building in Rockefeller Center. The letters are immediately pored over by Letters Chief Maria Luisa Cisneros and her staff. The most newsworthy are sent to Reporter-Researcher Nancy Chase, who picks those that will be published. A digest of the week's letters is also distributed to TIME'S editors and news bureaus. All letters are acknowledged, and those that question the tone, emphasis or factual content of a story are answered by Cisneros, her deputy, Isabel Kouri...
Soft-spoken and self-effacing, Eizenstat usually wears pinstripe suits and neatly knotted ties. He has little time for social functions, preferring to spend his private hours with his wife Fran and two young sons at their home in fashionable Chevy Chase. On rare occasions, he plays a quick set of tennis on courts near his home. Despite his growing role in the Administration, he intends to stay in the background, acting as Carter's solidly dependable right hand on national policies. Says he: "I'm going to try and shape things...
...same time, the Israelis were having second thoughts about the wisdom of their invasion of southern Lebanon. In the beginning, they had cheered their government's decision to strike back against the Palestinian guerrillas and chase them to their northern sanctuaries. But by midweek, as United Nations peace-keeping forces began to arrive, it was clear that the Israeli incursion, while killing more than 2,000 Arab civilians, had not damaged the Palestine Liberation Organization's ability to wage guerrilla...
...that are too narrow for even a bicycle to navigate. New York City lights are synchronized so that if your timing is right, you can drive for fifty or sixty blocks without hitting a red light. Cabbies always insist upon perfect timing, even if it means a high-speed chase through the pot-holed streets of the City. Commuting by cab is a sure-fire route to hypertension, ulcers and the inability to lace up one's own Adidas. It's kind of like the rolled coaster, whip, and bumper cars all rolled into one and set loose...
...year he formed a study group known for writing big outlines, and I think the group actually created tension in our section. I don't know that his story might not be exaggerated by an effort on his part to develop the tension, to create a 'Paper Chase...