Word: comment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Champion and Don I. Wortman, the current commissioner of the SSA, were unavailable for comment today...
...agency, must sign a waiver that gives away his rights to use CIA materials outside the job without permission. Still, "secret" documents have been used by some, and not by others, who lack the position or the prestige to get away with it. Perhaps the most astute comment on the ruling came from Robert L. Bernstein, chairman and president of Random House, the firm that published Snepp's book. Bernstein rather angrily noted that there are two classes of American citizens...
...literate style and Calvinist integrity. The Washingtonian quotes one Reston colleague: "His problem is over-access. He gets to see people others can't see and he believes them and blows their horn." But surely, to be able to quote Carter's or Kissinger's private comment accurately is to provide valuable information. Reston's real problem is that like most other columnists, he writes too often. On the days when he has nothing special to say, his complacent commentaries suggest a comfortable Virginia squire more than someone in touch with agonizing concerns...
Union officials could not be reached for comment last night...
...biting comment may well have been aimed at U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, who at one point dismissed the Cuban presence in Africa as "a stabilizing influence." Yet by implication, Brzezinski's harsh words could also have been aimed indirectly at Vance, whose expressions of Administration concern over Soviet and Cuban activity in Africa had been phrased with an almost Victorian gentility...