Word: flat
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...watch. Asked if he might have been told about the diversion but had forgotten, Reagan replied with a vehement no. After the formal session had ended -- but while he was still on television -- Reagan added that Poindexter and North "just didn't tell me what was going on." That flat statement dismayed some advisers, who had suggested that Reagan might want to use a hedge. Said one nervous adviser: "He was warned at least twice, but he said it the way he said...
...biggest of the big-time Christian TV entrepreneurs, Pat Robertson, was uninvolved in the Bakker scandal. Nonetheless, after the incident became public, a survey for Robertson noted a slight dip in his standing as a potential candidate. In polls he has been running at a flat 6% to 8%, trailing George Bush, Robert Dole and Jack Kemp. The gospel TV controversy does nothing to help Robertson, and appears quite likely to increase nationwide skepticism about Christian telecasters and weaken Robertson's appeal...
Each party is now struggling toward its candidate, its theme. The task is harder for Republicans, who are reluctant to break abruptly with Reagan and Reaganism. Still, Congressman Jack Kemp tries to stir a "sense of activism" with ideas for a flat tax with a low rate and "enterprise zones" to bring businesses to depressed areas. Vice President George Bush, who now must ease judiciously out of the Reagan shadow and establish himself as his own man, told TIME, "There will be a reordering of priorities, and it isn't inconceivable, in the future, that there will be more emphasis...
Like Scott, who lost his ranch in the Big Open, many of the 3,000 human inhabitants of the flat, arid area are going broke trying to raise wheat or cattle. If their lands were combined into a cooperative and replanted with native grasses, says Scott, the area could support wild animals on a scale ; unseen since Lewis and Clark came through in 1805. Tourists would flock in to watch the deer and the antelope play, hunters to stalk elk and perhaps 75,000 bison. Scott presented his plan in Missoula last month to the nonprofit Institute of the Rockies...
...Physicist Leo Szilard stepping off a London curb in 1933 and being struck by the shattering inspiration of sustained chain reaction; Cambridge's Ernest Rutherford angling for the secrets of the universe with string and red sealing wax; Pierre Curie's hands, swollen by prolonged exposure to radium; the flat feet that kept Albert Einstein out of the army; Nobel Prizewinner Enrico Fermi arriving for an appointment at the U.S. Navy Department and overhearing the desk officer tell his admiral, "There's a wop outside"; F.D.R.'s 13-word handwritten approval of atom bomb research beginning with...