Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, the Carters are so relentlessly just-plain-folks that outsiders usually ask, "Are they for real?" The answer is yes, to the extent that reality can exist in the White House, with its 70 or so servants and other household staff, its almost weekly state dinners, its constant reminders of vast power. TIME Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angela spent some time with the First Lady, and provides this latest situation report from the home front...
...hyper. I mean, first you are worried about the economy's going to be too strong and you are going to have inflation, and then you worry, my God, we are going to drop off into a mini-recession or worse. The worries change, but what remains constant is the worry -a generalized kind of worry, a malaise, a free-floating anxiety...
From Khartoum, Photographer David Burnett and I booked ourselves aboard a red and yellow bus that makes the daylong journey to Kassala, a Sudanese town that lies near the Eritrean border. For twelve hours, the bus hurtled through the open desert, crashing across giant potholes; the thermometer was constant-between...
...shmuck is a 9-to-5 job. De Niro clearly wants much more than that-not just to convince an audience that he grew up holding a sax, or living in Sicily, or playing baseball, but to convince him self. "If only there had been more time" is a constant De Niro refrain...
...constant skirmishing with companies, the Environmental Protection Agency last week won its biggest victory yet in a water-pollution case. After five years of litigation, U.S. Steel Corp. agreed to stop dumping cyanide, ammonia and phenols-all toxic pollutants-into Lake Michigan and the Grand Calumet River from its huge works at Gary, Ind. It has been pumping out 16,700 Ibs. a day of solids, part of them toxic...