Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year from their practices. The limitation also applies to members who have sizable outside incomes from speaking fees and from businesses that are not owned by them or their families. Says Illinois Democrat Morgan Murphy, who made $60,000 a year in fees from his Chicago law firm: "The abuses and scandals that have hit this Congress are not related to the code of ethics. The fellows who take money or line up some broad are not covered. This code is just a weak attempt to say, 'We're not as bad as you've been reading...
...week's end, however, the Administration appeared to change its tactics, while standing firm on what it wanted to achieve. Secretary Vance insisted that the White House was "not attempting to place conditions on the scope of the congressional review or the action by Congress." He reiterated Carter's press conference point that the sales requests would indeed be sent to Congress individually−but simultaneously. If any of the three sales was disapproved, the President would still be in a position to cancel the others...
...Clinch River has been jinxed from the start. When Richard Nixon gave the go-ahead in 1971, its cost was projected at $699 million. Seven years later the price tag is $2.2 billion and ground has yet to be broken in the Tennessee valley. What's more, the architectural firm given the contract for the project wrote in a 1973 report that Clinch River was "one of the worst sites ever selected for a nuclear power plant based on its topography and rock conditions." And with the increased amounts of uranium now available, the advantages of the breeder--namely...
...Love" is of course another of those embarrassing words, perhaps a word more embarrassing even than "morality"... It has, nonetheless, a firm, hard-headed sense that names the single quality without which true art cannot exist... We read or listen to or look at works of art in the hope of experiencing our highest, most selfless emotion, either to reach a sublime communication with the maker of the work, sharing his affirmations as common lovers do, or to find, in works of literature, characters we love as we do real people...
...specialized troops into a fruitless search for his body. Then, after receiving the second communiqué-as well as a new letter from Moro pleading for his life-Premier Giulio Andreotti and his colleagues once again faced the question of whether to negotiate with the kidnapers or stand firm in their resolve that there would be no concessions...