Word: dom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Greatest. This is the greatest Christmas album ever recorded. The "Apocalypse Now" of Christmas records. The Mazarati of funny Christmas records. The Taj Mahal of funny, inexpensive Christmas records. The Dom Perignon of funny, inexpensive Christmas records based on TV shows...
...some other company to build a plant in Turin or Trenton. Because the dol lars are outside the U.S., the bank is free from Federal Reserve rules that require it to keep as much as 16.25% of its U.S. demand deposits frozen rather than loaned out. Since this free dom lowers the bank's costs, it can pay perhaps 1% more interest on the dol lars deposited with it abroad than in the U.S., and it can offer loans at lower rates...
...three living predecessors, Henry Kissinger, William Rogers and Dean Rusk. They and the guests sat down to a dinner of rockfish, roast pheasant, oyster plant on artichoke bottoms, wild rice with water chestnuts, salmagundi salad and brie, along with a '76 Pommard and toasts in '69 Dom Pérignon. It was a menu that first Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson might have served. But to 177 people? Only if Jefferson too charged $1,000 a plate, most likely...
...Silverman arrived at NBC in June 1978. For years the network had taken care to soothe Carson, and Senior Vice President Dave Tebet provided him with champagne, flowers, limousines and all the other things a supercharged ego needs. Tebet left in the reshuffle after Silverman took over, and the Dom Perignon was forgotten. Carson was further annoyed when the new president, in an appearance on his anniversary show, was tongue-tied on-camera. He was infuriated when Silverman later prodded him publicly to appear on the show more often...
Ultimately the question of freedom of the press comes down to the question of freedom, period. Freedom exists both for good and bad, for the responsible and the irresponsible. Freedom only for the good, only for the right, would not be free dom at all. Freedom that hurts no one is impossible and a free press will sometimes hurt. That fact must be balanced against the larger fact that this freedom does not exist for the benefit of the press but for the benefit of all. In the majority of countries, judges are in effect only executioners and journalists...