Word: envious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Francisco conglomerate Transamerica, is scooping up wads of money from Rocky, which has grossed more than $100 million, Network ($30 million), The Pink Panther-Strikes Again ($40 million) and Woody Allen's Annie Hall, which took in $14 million in only seven weeks. Competitors are openly envious. Sighs Charles Bluhdorn, chairman of Gulf + Western, which operates Paramount Pictures: "I saw the first 15 minutes of Rocky, and I said, 'Why the hell didn't we make that...
Past Vice Presidents would be amazed and envious of Walter Frederick Mondale. Here is a Veep not only exercising power but reveling in it, surrounded by scurrying aides and history in the making. In the job that one of his 41 predecessors (John Nance Garner) compared unfavorably to a pitcher of warm spit, Mondale claims to be having the time of his life. He is a top adviser who is consulted, listened to and liked by the President: One measure of his closeness with his boss is their good-natured exchange of gibes. At the Gridiron Dinner, Mondale remarked...
...seemed, did most of the country. The speech was pure Carter-simple, direct, yet shrewd. Envious Republicans could find little to fault. "He was folks, and folks is in," said an insider at the Republican National Committee. "I hate to say it, but from a purely analytical point of view, I loved it." Even so, the R.N.C. asked networks for equal time. In California, a party official said, "We've gotten some complaints on the phone about this. People ask whether we're going to challenge the President on the need to conserve energy or his pledge...
...world's oldest laissez-faire enterprise?). Cyrano, in fact, might have been named Loophole. Buckley charters the boat for much of the year, making him eligible for depreciation allowances on it, deductible expenses, etc. He alludes to such arrangements but spares the details. The reader is envious enough...
...lldin exuded an unthreatening sincerity. A pipe-smoking country boy who still raises sheep, cuts timber and grows oats and corn on his 668-acre farm, the new Prime Minister mixes easily with all kinds of people and speaks to them in simple language about their problems. Admitted an envious Social Democratic politician: "Fälldin is like your next-door neighbor. He's what people think of as typically Swedish. He's a clever, honest...