Word: fed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modified--if Hemingway is in some form or another the spiritual godfather of this book other influences also shine through. As Michael Herr said in his excellent book of reporting on the war, Dispatches, the crazy war in Vietnam and the equally crazy cultural revolution here both fed off the same circuit, to the point that the survivors of both of those twittering machines are almost indistinguishable from each other. "All Along the Watchtower" arcs above the prose as Hemingway does below, not Dylan's fearful version but Jimi Hendrix's scream. The prose itself is cool, boldly surreal...
...priorities will be strengthening the battered dollar. But to get the chance to deliver on his words, he had to survive confirmation hearings that turned into an unexpected ordeal-in which his views on the dollar, interest rates, money supply and other matters that a Fed chairman must handle hardly figured at all. Rather, the issue was Miller's personal integrity as chairman of Textron Inc., the giant conglomerate...
...party's campaign against police brutality in Oakland, Cal., resulted in a 95-per-cent reduction of police brutality in that city, Seale said. He added that the group's free-breakfast program also fed poor children before they went to school...
Harvard then proceeded to turn the game around, and the fans on. It became 4-2 at 15:55 when Bobby McDonald fed a perfect backhand centering pass to Tommy Murray for Harvard's second tally. And 34 seconds later, with 3:31 remaining in the game, it suddenly became a contest, as retread Billy Nolen ripped home Barney Cook's face-off pass to make...
...Carter and his continuing series of shaky appointees. He, and his administration, can be criticized for not knowing enough, or ignoring things, about the men they recommend for powerful positions--Bert Lance and now G. William Miller being cases in point. The administration should forget about Miller for the Fed, and Carter should worry about yet another gaffe...