Word: differences
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same portion of a meeting between the President (P) and Assistant Attorney General Henry E. Petersen (HP) on April 16, 1973. The overlap slipped by, and the two versions appeared in tandem in the published transcript as separate conversations. The error was not caught sooner because the versions differ so markedly, underscoring the House Judiciary Committee's argument that only the tapes will suffice as evidence in its impeachment inquiry. Comparisons of parts of the two versions...
Here, I must differ forcefully. What emerges from these transcripts is a president searching diligently for the truth in Watergate--attempting to balance the enduring interests of the Republic, the commands of the law, and the lives and reputations of his friends and loyal deputies...
...alliance gave Mrs. Meir only a slim majority: 68 seats in a Parliament of 120 members. Bickering among the factions was one reason her government finally caved in. Rabin will have to use all of his generalship and his diplomatic persuasion to retain the ten Religious Party members. They differ with his moderate views on ceding some occupied territories as part of the peacemaking process; they also have a running difference with Labor on the sticky religious question of just who is a Jew and what rabbinical procedures must be followed for conversions to Judaism. Even if Rabin succeeds, another...
...reason that economists can differ sharply over whether the U.S. is in a "recession" is that there is no simple, numerical definition of the term. Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, offers a qualitative description: "An extended, substantial and widespread decline in aggregate economic activity, but one less severe than earlier 'depressions.' " The job of determining just which downturns belong in that category has fallen to the National Bureau of Economic Research, whose word on the subject is practically law in the profession...
...stay home with their children, even when the children were in school. Women who wanted higher education were expected to still be model wives and mothers. The point here is not so much that women are mistreated as that planning is needed to provide for people whose lifestyles differ from the traditional American family way of life. Single parent families, families in which one parent is a student and the other must work to provide support, and those in which both parents need or wish to work cannot operate feasibly without the benefit of child care...