Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although it is far too early for an accounting, the White House realizes that Carter's campaign promises will be re-examined in light of his actions. His staff has drawn up a 111-page list of those promises for his reference. He is fulfilling many of them-creating a welfare-reform plan, drafting an energy policy, tackling Government reorganization. But Carter has at least hedged on some of the other campaign pledges. In spite of his previous opposition to the construction of B-1 bombers, he has yet to announce he will halt the program inherited from Gerald...
...idea of a Cabinet-level energy department is hardly revolutionary; indeed, the DOE that Carter is proposing resembles one drawn up by the Ford Administration in its waning days. But it is a plain and practical proposal, attuned to the nation's current political and economic realities...
...public's nostalgic obsession with all things old, decaying or dead, now stands at number two on The New York Times Best Seller List, and seems certain to net its author enough money to buy an ocean liner of his own. Part of its appeal is probably misplaced: those drawn to the book expecting new tales of aristocratic bravery in the face of death are bound for disappointment, for Cussler has simply used the old wreck as a pawn in a far-fetched modern spy thriller. But the book tries to make up for the deception with a smorgasbord...
...Journey of the Wolf manages to outlast the errors and inexperience of its author. Although his touch is unsure, Day keeps El Lobo and the story moving at a good clip, through a Spanish landscape drawn with evident familiarity and style. Most important, memories of the war still lend a fascination that the best fiction cannot wholly capture and the worst cannot extinguish. This passionate and brutal struggle was the postage stamp on a letter to the world...
...work, titled "A Directory of Significant 20th Century American Women," will contain profiles of 600 women drawn from suggestions by civil rights, women's, political, ethnic, civic, and other naitonal organizations, Smith said...