Word: forget
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voice the tropical l's and r's. Her presence, her singing created a large, swelling anxiety. Long red fingernails and the sound of electrified guitars. Here was a woman who had never been a Christian." So desperately important to a woman who was trying to forget that...
...more intense than I expected," admits Middle East Envoy Robert S Strauss. But optimists on both sides emphasized the hope that if peace goes forward successfully, the immense military budgets can eventually be reduced. "When we speak about the cost of peace," says an Israeli banking official, "we cannot forget the cost of war." For the present, the "caravan" of the peace process was still advancing: this weekend both Egypt's and Israel's beleaguered but determined leaders will meet to preside over Israel's withdrawal from the city of El Arish in the northern Sinai...
...insurers and government bureaucrats who pay the bills kept a sharp eye on costs. But they do not. The Blue Cross movement, which affiliated with the American Hospital Association in 1937, has not rigorously questioned hospital bills until recently. Congress, when legislating Medicare and Medicaid, tacitly agreed to forget about cost controls as part of a bargain to keep the medical profession from opposing the program. Instead, one of the ways the Government reimburses hospitals for the care of Medicare-Medicaid patients is on a "cost plus" basis, and it asks few questions about the cost. Blue Shield and commercial...
Bring Viet Nam Closer As a Vietnamese of French nationality who has lived in France for 25 years, I think the best way to forget Viet Nam [April 23] and the pain of the war is, paradoxically, to normalize relations with Viet Nam, to help rebuild its too fragile economy. In your conscience you know that the misery is caused by your destruction of this poor, small country. The farther away you get from Viet Nam, the more it remains in your mind and heart as a kind of reproach and remorse...
...gold-hued carpet. When Carlson's Gold Bond Stamp operation was at its peak in the 1960s, its executives drove a fleet of company-owned gold Cadillacs. A gold-framed saying in one of his offices reflects Carlson's buck-starts-here philosophy: "Lest you forget, our sole purpose here is to make money. However, let's have fun while we are doing...