Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Variety in view and routine is a relaxant. Ford now has an informal office just beyond the Oval Office. Unlike Nixon, this President frequently takes off his coat and works in shirtsleeves. His pipe is handy and in constant use. White House Physician William Lukash believes such little things reduce tedium and tension. Ford likes movies at night but sometimes flakes out. He fell asleep during a screening of The Sugarland Express but stayed the distance for Chinatown. There is an effort to introduce soothing potions of humor in the daily rituals. When Hollywood's gorgeous Candice Bergen...
...acceptance rate of Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates for the past two year has held constant at 28 per cent. Medical School admissions officer Tanya Friedman said yesterday that this year's rate will not be ready until April...
...Tania and her fellow revolutionaries, selflessness and collectivism serve a definite purpose--it is the only way for them to live under the constant threat of death. Not only do they themselves gain a kind of immortality--no matter what happens, their spirit will live on in the revolution--but they can also find consolation for the death of their friends. "We must take time to weep for our fallen comrades," Che tells the troops, adding pointedly. "While we sharpen our machetes." And when, all the end of the play. Tania and Che themselves fall victims to the enemy...
...Fitzgerald read Agee's poetry then and disliked it--and they both had an intense interest in contemporary writers. This common interest eventually brought Fitzgerald and Agee together writing book reviews at Time magazine. It was here Fitzgerald says that they found their, strongest shared idea, one which became constant and in time inveterate: the precise relation between any given real situation or event and the versions of it presented in print. "And it was at Time that they came to a common agreement as artists first and journalists second: "We simply mistrusted the journalistic apparatus as a mirror...
...some OPEC nations that run into deficits will try to increase revenues by stepping up oil production. If demand does not increase at the same time, they will ask Saudi Arabia and the other surplus countries to cut back their own output to keep the cartel's production constant. And that could break up OPEC...