Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration would set a cap of $200,000 on crop loans to any one farmer. That would answer one frequent and justified criticism of present farm policies: they give the most help to the biggest farmers, who need it least...
...author's frequent assertion that Howard Hughes triggered the President's downfall is too broad, his attempt to link cause and effect too narrow. It is hard to believe that disclosure of the Hughes cash was all the White House worried about, or that the gift was the only potential scandal the opposition party was sitting on. A paranoid with bottomless pockets may have indirectly caused Nixon's final political crisis, but he was probably not the main reason. In addition, Drosnin's case is not helped by pop-novel techniques that cheapen his journalistic efforts: "But now aboard...
...looking for a Rocky Mountain high started moving in. Native Elvira Wunderlich, 70, remembers the hippies as "just a bunch of trust funders and freeloaders." But the newcomers brought along their political savvy and quickly commandeered the town council from the locals, known as the elks (because of their frequent meetings at the Elks Club). Says former Mayor Jerry Rosenfeld, 44, a Denver dropout from the Eugene McCarthy campaign: "We were going to build a utopia here...
...capsules reduced the recurrences or their severity, or both, in more than 95% of the cases. Between 40% and 75% of the herpes victims had no recurrences at all during the period. (But afterward, in all cases, the herpes attacks resumed.) For most of those who had less frequent herpes episodes, use of the capsule for five days--beginning as soon as the initial tingling symptoms appeared--effectively reduced the outbreaks...
...Secretary is a frequent traveler abroad, having visited 37 nations during his tenure, and he savors the pomp and ceremony that accompany his trips to military installations. At home, his 8 a.m. staff meetings usually begin with a review of the "early bird," a packet of the previous day's news stories involving the military. Indeed, even his supporters say he is more apt to react to a press account of waste and fraud than he is to any internal effort to improve Pentagon management...