Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haldeman & Co. represent the true Middle America, the people Haldeman says read the Reader's Digest? That obviously is ridiculous. In the Detroit Athletic Club, they laugh more. In the suburbs of St. Louis, they understand the Constitution of the U.S. better. In San Francisco, they listen to opposing views more often. English Writer Michael Davie says that the White House wrecking crew forms a new genre of political men, something he labels "Orange County boys," a group molded by the spirit of that Southern California area where, he suggests, fear, suspicion and ignorance come together in unfortunate combinations...
astronomically, eventually not even Justice Douglas will be able to digest it all. In the future the Federal court system may require Freund's NCA. For the present, the doubts surrounding the NCA's necessity and constitutionality warrant further study and debate...
...Cool off, Dean. Now, that New York Times fellow, R.W Appleseed, asked Ziegler some pointed questions last week. According to my news digest, Appleseed quoted Ziegler as saying you were in your office Friday, and further, 'I don't know what he's doing. Attending to business, I assume'--uh, here Ron chuckled, it says--'business of some sort.' Just what the hell were you doing in your office Friday...
...integrating theory is developed, the theory is tested, and finally the policy which that theory dictates is put into practice. Regretfully, a policy maker seldom has sufficient facts at his disposal to use the scientific method fruitfully. Facts are expensive to gather; policy makers lack sufficient time to digest all the facts, even if they are gathered; and, the accuracy of supposed facts is always subject to question. Most importantly, the press of time is always present...
...such a soggy fantasy to be advancing; that the solution to the problem is, forget it, fix it later, is not. What does it matter if the world blows up, after all, if we have the happy valley, Methuselah-like longevity, and Burt Bacharach and the Reader's Digest to teach us the better...