Word: deal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nine more days of phone calls and $114 later, MacArthur hung up and announced to all who would listen: "Trying to deal with the Government is like having a hippopotamus for a ballet partner." Finally he went to a local bank for his $30,000 and turned his attention to what he calls, as though the words were engraved in stone, The Project...
...many Americans "our kind of guy," in rudely definable contrast to "their" kind of guy. It is partly a cultural division-the difference between a sort of Nixon Class (some businessmen, blue-collar workers, large portions of Middle America) and the New Class made up of people who deal in symbols and information, not things: people from universities, Government welfare agencies, publishing houses, the communications industry, consumer groups, environmental causes. All kinds of litmus tests can be applied to identify the New Class: What do you think of abortion...
...rely on their own intuitive judgments about whether a given ruling will "chill" press freedom. "In the Stanford Daily case," notes Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt, "Justice White [who wrote the majority opinion] just doesn't believe that sources will dry up." Notes Gunther: "There is a great deal of misunderstanding and suspicion between press and court. Both sides are at fault...
...past two years. All this fits Miller's ideas so well that there is speculation that he and Carter have struck a bargain under which the Administration practices tax-and-spending restraint and Miller refrains from a stern hold-down on credit. Miller and Carter have no formal deal but a tacit understanding to roughly that effect...
...reading and contemplation. Members of the Federal Reserve's superb staff, which produced the Government's first computerized model of the economy in 1968, can take a few months to study some obscure financial problem. According to persistent legend, Reserve employees also indulge in a good deal of partying and high living. Fed people say the stories are exaggerated, though the board long had its own tennis courts, and today its staffers almost monopolize some supposedly public courts near the building...