Word: dovetails
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...style," and what some former associates more bluntly term mental laziness, were largely offset during his successful first term by the advice of an exceptionally talented group of aides. But since re-election the President has been surrounded by advisers whose own deficiencies, as the commission makes clear, disastrously dovetail with those of their boss...
Three stories dovetail in this small book. One of them involves the ordeal of Luis Alejandro Velasco, a sailor on a Colombian destroyer. He was swept overboard and into the Caribbean, along with seven other crew members, on Feb. 28, 1955, and endured ten days in a life raft before swimming ashore to what would become a hero's welcome. Once the cheering had died down, Velasco offered to sell his account to El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota. A young reporter named Gabriel Garcia Marquez spent some 120 hours interviewing the survivor and shaping his recollections into a first...
Those explanations dovetail nicely with the apparent rise in Gromyko's influence. He derives clout from long experience as the Kremlin's top diplomat and a flawless record of cleaving to the collective Politburo line. Says Uri Ra'anan, professor at Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy: "I am astounded at Gromyko's authority. He has absolutely no political power base." Agrees Pipes: "By default, he has moved...
Dougherty contacts CIA authorities about Jay, but it turns out they already know part of the story. A mole in Polish intelligence has told them about the sale of Minuteman secrets by "an American businessman." The CIA puts questions to Jay through Attorney Dougherty and receives answers that dovetail with the mole's account. Following up clues provided by the mole and unwittingly corroborated by Dougherty, the FBI comes up with a name for Jay: James Durward Harper...
...that can hardly be true with the economic mess that we came into office with. And what we are trying to resolve here-and, as a matter of fact, they do kind of dovetail-are mutual problems in the field of economics and our trade problems and so forth. I think the United States plays a very important role in the world economy. One of the most helpful things we can do for our allies is to put our country on a sound economic footing. And that's pretty exciting...