Word: founds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outside the big top. Warmth flowed along with the California wine. Clark Clifford, waiting for the President to greet the crowd, was a man who had always been suspicious of the show of religion in statecraft. Still, touched by the spiritual nature of the day's events, he found himself wishing that Carter would say grace, something that has never been done in memory at a state dinner. Almost as if there had been thought transference. Carter then announced that he wanted to say a prayer. The astonished Clifford bowed his head...
...election in which they may lose heavily. "This is the first time in recorded history," he said, "that the turkeys have been known to vote for an early Christmas." He also twitted Thatcher for waiting until the Scots Nats had moved against his government: "When the Right Honorable Lady found out what they would do, she found the courage of their convictions...
Behind the scenes, Laborites were trying desperately to woo minor party M.P.s whose votes might keep the government in office. Suddenly, money was found for Welsh quarrymen suffering from silicosis where none had existed before; almost as suddenly three Welsh Nationalists decided to stay with the government. Labor's tactics prompted an outcry about "sordid haggling," although the Tories were engaged in some backstairs dealing of their own. Having won over the Welsh, Callaghan and his lieutenants turned their attention to three of the twelve members from Ulster; most of the others were Protestant Unionists considered certain to vote...
...wunderstock and in the business press as "a savvy marketer to the Third World," ISC is today in deep trouble. In the past two years, it has piled up losses totaling more than $50 million. In February, the American Stock Exchange suspended trading in ISC, after auditors found serious irregularities in the firm's financial records. The company's longtime chairman, J. Thomas Kenneally, 52, was ousted two weeks ago, and the few employees remaining in ISC's lavish skyscraper headquarters have been busy tagging the antique furniture for auction. Now company managers are bracing for another...
...affidavits from atomic experts and Cabinet Secretaries Cyrus Vance (State), Harold Brown (Defense) and James Schlesinger (Energy)-that the article would irreparably damage the security interests of the U.S. While conceding the story probably did not "provide a 'do-it-yourself' guide for the hydrogen bomb," Warren found that it contained vital concepts restricted under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. (Significantly, the Government could invoke no such statutory authority when it tried unsuccessfully to block publication of the Pentagon papers in 1971.) "The article could possibly provide sufficient information to allow a medium-sized nation to move...