Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sagging Forecasts. Already there is mild jockeying for power between Board Chairman Simon and Executive Director Seidman. For the moment, Seidman, Ford's old friend and adviser from Grand Rapids, is closest to the President's ear, and there is not much that Simon can do about it. Seidman is a novice in high-powered Washington politics and has limited experience in economics. He is an urbane millionaire lawyer and accountant (Seidman & Seidman) and is regarded as a first-rate executive. He seems well suited for his job of coordinating the board's policies and managing...
Finance Minister, Giscard always seemed to be a cold, remote bureaucrat. But he set the country on its ear at his very first presidential press conference, declaring: "I aim first of all to dust off the republic." That is precisely what he has done. From his low-keyed inauguration and his subsequent stroll along the Champs-Elysées, Giscard has launched an all-out effort to stamp his presidency as young, relaxed, liberal and open...
...book about batacas-the plastic-foam bats that sexual partners can smack each other with. I rushed out and bought a pair, and while George was taking off his shoes, I crept up behind him (nude, of course) and gave him a loving bataca shot behind the right ear. As he got up off the floor, he shrieked, "Don't tell me that dingbat has written another book!" and ran right downstairs to our coffee table. He found it there, of course, and kept howling and slapping his thigh as he read your keen advice. Not even another bataca...
...scary. Widener Library has prepubescent brass rails, but if you slide on these, you will truly be shaking the golden rule: Rumpled professors may scurry to their files, but the officious bookchecker is sure to apprehend you. By all means slide, though, and put this University on its ear, even if you end up on your...
Yoss maintains that there is a definite need for the services of Room 13, "to provide a place where students can talk to other students about anything. Referrals are available and an ear is willing to listen...