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...legal to employ the FBI for that purpose. So I would not do it. [Attorney General Edward Levi recently made such a determination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Ford: 'It's Much Better to Go In as an Underdog' | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

...simply does not use the "good ole boy" phraseology; his speech is far too aristocratic for that. Even in casual conversation, he is not likely to fall into what linguists call the double modal-"might could" or "might ought." Nor can he be expected to employ another familiar Deep South form, the perfective done, as in "he done did it." Between now and November, moreover, his audiences are not apt to hear him describe his opponent, as some Plains folk might, as "a sorry piece of plunder" or threaten to "knock the bark off' him or talk of getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LANGUAGE: Sounds of the South | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

Moviemakers and playwrights love to employ a show as a metaphor for the world; customarily the works that use this device are impossibly pretentious and unpersuasive. As Altman presents it, this tatty wild West show is ill-choreographed and never delivers all it promises. Yet on the whole, it is an extremely graceful journey over ground that has tripped many in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bill Rendered | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

Twelve demonstrators from the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees, Motion Picture Machine Operators picketed the Harvard Square Theater for 30 minutes Friday night, carrying signs reading, "This theater does not employ union operators...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: Pickets 'Note' That Theater In Square Has No Union | 7/13/1976 | See Source »

Proper Records. The reformers also sought to reduce Congressmen's special funds and little extras that could be used to employ a woman with Ray's restricted talents. For example, the group voted to abolish the time-honored "cash-outs" system, under which a Congressman gets to keep any money from expense allowances-such as stationery and travel back home-that is not spent. Theoretically, he could pocket up to $11,000 every year. Under the present system, the Congressmen have 14 separate accounts, which they guard and use like so many cookie jars on the mantel. Obey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Liz Ray Reform Kit | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

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