Word: done
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the past few months, Strauss has used the telephone on his large French-provincial desk (adorned with a plaque asserting IT CAN BE DONE) to carry out many presidential missions. He has helped in pressuring coal companies to accept union demands during the recent miners' strike, promoting approval of the first Panama Canal treaty and persuading Senators to clear the nomination of G. William Miller as Federal Reserve chairman. The day after the committee swung behind Miller, Strauss told him: "Mondale and I worked that Banking Committee from A to Z yesterday. Now you can go to work...
Things are a little out of the ordinary at 50-12 Dover Road, Queens. For eleven years, Isabel Moore has been nursing her widowed father through a series of debilitating strokes. The first occurred when she was 19, and she has done the dirty, exhausting job all by herself. She is aware that almost no one of her generation would make the choice that she did, but she likes the "balletic routine" of caring for an invalid. There had been an ugly, whining housekeeper named Margaret Casey, but Isabel loathed her and summoned the force to throw...
...would like to act as a library for how to get things done [in the bureaucracy] and to send that sort of information to institutions which could make use of it." Wellington said...
...handed Gardiner's oar back to him. By the time Harvard got their shell back up to top gear, Brown had sliced the lead to one-quarter of a length. That was as close as the Bruins got. What George Aitken called "some of the best rowing we've done," 40 strokes perminute, stretched the lead quickly to one-half of a length, then to almost a full one by the finish line. Harvard's new winning streak stands...
...NOTEBOOK: Overlooked admist the two Saturday scores was the impressive long relief job done by Ron Stewart in the second game...