Word: feds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talk time, the President accumulated information and ideas that demanded yes or no. He repeated the routine each day. The number of suggestions and ideas increased. Suddenly, admits a Carter aide, they found the President had more things he could do-more power-than he had believed. The process fed on itself. Confidence and enthusiasm grew. Iranian oil imports were ended, assets were frozen, allies badgered, the U.N. pressured, a fleet moved. Two weeks ago, the plan to get observers in to see the hostages evolved and step by step the pressure of opinion and appeal was orchestrated. The White...
...what comes out at the end." They spend their lives isolated behind typewriters and computer consoles. Gyllenhammar worries that company chiefs expect the industrial Indians to be machinelike. "If they die little by little every year, nobody cares very much." But millions of workers are becoming fed up, he believes, and the frustrations are rising equally in Europe, Japan and North America...
...quick punch is always better than stewing about for months," Daltrey says, but by 1967, Moon and Entwistle were both fed up, and took a walk together. "I was always breaking up fights," Entwistle remembers, "pulling Roger off somebody, usually Pete. Keith and I were fed up with all the punching, and with Townshend's being so bigheaded, thinking he was a bleeding musical genius." Moon and Entwistle had eyes for a new group, and had even come up with a name and a rough design for an album cover. It was abandoned when Moon and Entwistle returned...
Only a major victory by the Crimson's dependable heavyweight Jim Phills saved the team from a loss. Phills' opponent, B.U.'s Walter Vaughn, looked too tired to put up a fight. The freshman waited patiently for Vaughn to falter and then fed him a steady diet of tie-up noves, waltzing away with an 18-6 win. "Jim fought a tough bout," co-captain Doug Mason said. "He used brains and pulled us out of the fire...
Worse, high Administration officials say that the hostages are now being fed deliberately falsified reports from the U.S. aimed at convincing them that Washington and the American people are abandoning them. It is, says one official angrily, "an orchestrated campaign," perhaps designed to break the Americans down before a show trial. What particularly angers Carter, according to one White House official last week, is that quasi-brainwashing techniques common only in wartime are being used against the Americans. Says one U.S. official of the embassy occupiers: "If they are really students, they have been taking some mighty interesting courses...