Word: delightful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...survived in Cambridge through a precarious one man majority on the city council. Four councilors--members of the Cambridge Civic Association--have pledged to maintain the present system, four would like to at least significantly weaken it, and one--former mayor and long-time councilor Alfred E. Vellucci--takes delight in holding the swing vote. He has never dropped his support of rent control, though...
...dismay of some and the delight of a few, Richard Nixon was back in the headlines. Ronald Reagan had asked him to join ex-Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter in the official U.S. delegation to the funeral of Egypt's Anwar Sadat. Then, mysteriously, Nixon had embarked on a private week's tour of Middle Eastern and North African capitals, fueling rumors that he was acting as an unofficial emissary for Reagan. (Not so, say both Nixon and the White House.) Just back from that trip, Nixon talked with TIME's Washington Contributing Editor Hugh Sidey...
...Nutri/System Inc. of Melrose Park, Pa., earned $44,000 in 1976. By this year earnings had jumped to $9 million on the 408 company-owned or franchised weight-loss centers in 45 states. Says Investment Banker Michael Taylor, who watches Nutri/System carefully: "It's a sybarite's delight, the Me generation personified...
...their dinner parties and receptions that the relationships are created without which the machinery of Government would soon stalemate itself." This suggests that gossip is too important to be left to gossip writers, who occupy a rather lowly place in journalistic hierarchies. Gossip writing requires snoopy eavesdropping, a delight in malice and a readiness to go into print with one side, or one piece of a story. A double standard exists for gossip: it doesn't have to be as thoroughly documented as a news story. One question Bradlee has difficulty answering is why, if he believed the Carter...
...Whole Earth are practically national icons, has none.) The most elaborate are put out by Britain and France. Both distribute slick omnibus arms compendia, Britain every year since 1969, France biannually since 1967, that the world's wish-listing generals and defense ministers can flip through with the delight of boys at Christmas time. There are no order forms or suggested retail prices. But whether they prefer the grand, gilded and clothbound British Defence Equipment Catalogue in three volumes (5,000 printed, $150 per set) or France's more workaday, four-volume paperback catalogue (6,000 printed, free...