Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense of humor, more of one than he is generally credited with, as well as his sense of purpose, or so it is said. As Jody Powell sums it up, 'He'll have to stand or fall on what he's really like. He's got his particular style of operating, of leadership, and in the long run he'll be judged on that, up or down...
...President sent Blumenthal around the nation last summer to rally support for his program. Speaking mainly to groups of businessmen, Blumenthal got a stony response. Yet when Carter finally announced his tax package in his 1978 State of the Union message, he stubbornly insisted once again on including reform proposals...
...Lake, usually 260 ft. deep, was a virtual mud flat. The normally roaring Stanislaus River near Sacramento turned into a trickle. Kent reservoir serving Marin County dropped by more than a third of its usual level. Warned Richard Felch of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration: "We've got a good chance of another dust bowl...
...only thing certain about the weather is that it will change. Sure enough, late last fall, rain started falling in California. Hard. Water came so abundantly to the dry and thirsty land that in the first six months of this year the state got 2½ times its normal amount of rainfall. The rains have been so plentiful that there would have been disastrous floods if the drought had not emptied streams, lakes and reservoirs...
Next day in the castle's elegant conference room, overlooking the moat with its graceful black swans, Vance, Dayan and Kamel and their respective aides got down to direct talks. Although Vance sees his role as "more than a mediator, more than a postman," in the words of one U.S. official, he put forward no U.S. proposals during the meeting. Dayan and Kamel did about 90% of the talking in the sessions, which lasted for nearly seven hours...