Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford. "There is an openness within the Carter Administration," says Ogden. "This means that officials you deal with now are seeing information they never received under Kissinger. In those days, many officials resorted to asking reporters what they had heard from Kissinger." Not that this particular question has gone out of style-as shown in Hugh Sidey's column on the former Secretary of State, who is in demand by foreign statesmen, not to mention reporters...
...political world. Most Americans now seem to agree on the general goals for Government-things like better health care and more jobs. Thus there may be no need for a President to raise a banner in the old way-just for him to make the slogans that have gone before mean what they...
...Soviet computer technology lags most is in speed. Their Ryad-model computers, the most advanced machines in general use in the Soviet Union, are close copies of the IBM 360 series, first introduced in the U.S. in 1964. The top design in the Ryad line, which has not yet gone into use, performs only 1.5 million operations per second, compared with up to 12 million for the Cyber 76. Even the latest Soviet computers are ten to twenty times slower than the present generation of U.S. computers...
That colossal yet fine-grained self-confidence, the sense of sharing and building on an inviolable tradition of pictorial language, the assurance that history is seamless-all that is gone. The paintings remain; their author seems a cultural impossibility...
Some people believe, of course, that government has gone entirely too far in trying to make life fairer. The formula of best government equaling least government has vanished into the vast bureaucratic software that produces welfare, food stamps and unemployment benefits. But if government is indeed, for better or worse, promoting the health, education and welfare of the American people, why should federal help for those who seek abortions be excluded...