Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moore concedes that the Carter team initially underestimated the importance of congressional relations. But, he insisted to TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud, "people around here are more and more aware that a big part of the game in this town is on the Hill." Besides, Moore argues, some friction between the White House and Congress is inevitable during the transition from a Republican to a Democratic Administration. "Every Democrat on the Hill had a backlog of people he wanted jobs for," Moore says. His office still gets 1,000 calls a day (down from 2,000 nine months ago) for everything...
Charlie's fallen angel has replaced her former halo with a parasol-and is on Cloud Nine. "This is my first three-dimensional role," bubbles Farrah Fawcett-Majors. In the forthcoming movie Somebody Killed Her Husband, Farrah plays Jenny Moore, an unhappily married young mother who falls in love with an unsuccessful writer of children's books (Jeff Bridges). Between embraces, the pair chase around Manhattan trying to find out who knocked off Jenny's husband-and why. "I really understand the character of Jenny, and every day I think I learn something new about her," reflects...
...much as 5,000 pages a year. Emery has started a school for the rule writers. He is trying to make the language at least understandable. He illustrates the problem with a parable: "It is like the two fellows in the hot air balloon who get lost in a cloud and, emerging, call down to a man on the ground, 'Where are we?' The fellow calls back, 'In a hot air balloon.' The answer, like a lot of regulations, is absolutely accurate but totally useless...
...military show. Along with the sight of thousands of troops marching to the music of 750 massed musicians, the audience, which included military attaches of Western embassies, was treated to the first public display of the Red Army's formidable new T-72 tank. Trailing a heavy blue cloud of exhaust fumes, 46 of the diesel-powered 40-ton machines roared through Red Square. One Western government observer's assessment: "A very businesslike-looking weapon." Already in service in East Germany and the Soviet Union, the T-72 has a 115-mm. gun with an infra...
...from 1961 to 1965, agrees that Helms' mistake was in consenting to testify on sensitive CIA matters before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which was not one of the oversight committees. Some sources suggest that Helms so badly wanted to become Ambassador to Iran that he let ambition cloud his judgment...