Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Said Kahn: "I am now 100% behind the decision to decontrol. I always have been 49½% behind it." Then he told an AFL-CIO rally that failure of voluntary wage-price guidelines to slow inflation would lead to either mandatory controls or a recession. Powell had to make clear to reporters that the President disagreed and that Kahn was not signaling an imminent change in policy. Said a White House aide: "Kahn does a wonderful job, but he's too damn flip...
...have to be thoughtful in choosing our involvements. Secondly, if we get involved, we must prevail. There are no awards for losers." Anthony Lake, director of the State Department's policy planning staff, uses more cautious phrasing: "What Viet Nam should have taught us is to be very clear-eyed about our interests and the situations we are getting into when we use our military power. It should not have taught us that we should never use our power. We should be very careful about doctrinaire answers or lessons-either that we should have intervened anywhere, any time orin...
...journey to the core. Time has no meaning in a land where the past is no different than the future, where there is only the present. As a Zen Buddhist, his goal is to live only in this present which he feels he does--when he meditates in clear mountain light, sitting beneath whirling raptors, eating sparse, rough food. Such moments, though, are rare and far between. More often than not the truer reality that he yearns for, and has travelled so far through the years to find, is obscured and bogged down by his observations and actions which...
Blood's crackback block ("I had to clear him up," he said afterwards.) left a man on first and two outs before sophomore Chuck Marshall poled a 2-0 offering deep over the left field fence to give the Crimson a gutsy triumph over the then league-leading Quakers. Penn had entered the contest with a 5-0-1 record in the EIBL...
...obscure philosophy and ramblings about "soaring with the eagles" and feeling "the nauseousness of failure," McGuire came through loud and clear, though, saying, "You do what...