Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this job and who will be named Ambassador to Cairo. As one former aide put it, Strauss can "take two guys that are in total disagreement with each other into a room and walk out later with neither of the two satisfied but both having stepped a lot closer together." One Texas-size question: Will the cajoling style that served Strauss so well in smoke-filled rooms at Democratic conventions have the same effect on Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin...
...girls we picked up were heavier and brought us closer than ever to the 125-lb. average we are supposed to be at," Peterson said. "With a tail wind like we had, being heavier is a definite advantage in the water," she said, nothing that the Williams boat was much lighter than her own crew...
...Boston Study Group comes closer to the truth than most. Its members--four academies, a politician and a graphics artist--have thought about the consequences of nuclear war. They have imagined Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and have wrought their vision into The Price of Defense, a book about the American military that is at once humane and informative, radical and sensible, evident yet original. For the most part, they have avoided both the military jargon that sanitizes insanity and the tired, violent rhetoric of destruction. Though the book's voice is somewhat anonymous (an inevitable result of group writing) occasionally lapses...
...electrical work, including six to eight weeks for two union workers moving light switches in the six bathrooms closer to the medicine cabinet...
Paul said his group saw a man, wearing an army jacket, walk between Robinson and Sever Halls towards the Quincy St. Gate. The man turned around to face them and said "I'll cut you up like Thanksgiving turkeys" if they came any closer, Paul said...