Word: hamilton
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...Constitution simply provides that a convention will be called when two-thirds of the state legislatures petition Congress for one. Any amendments adopted by the convention must be ratified by three-quarters of the states before taking effect. There is no evading the clarity of the text. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist Paper No. 85, "The words of the article are peremptory. Congress shall call a convention. Nothing in this particular is left to the discretion of that body...
...soon the two leaders discovered that they liked dealing with each other. There was no posturing and no haggling during the three face-to-face sessions. At one point, Michel Oksenberg, the National Security Council's China specialist, slid a scribbled note across the table to Presidential Aide Hamilton Jordan. The euphoric message: "This is a historic meeting. You are witnessing the takeoff of Sino-American relations." Another White House aide said of Carter and Teng: "It's impossible to exaggerate the significance of their personal rapport. There's a feel to the relationship that will...
...Allain stopped the shots he had to and watched as the Crimson missed some he didn't have a chance on, until Marshall Hamilton broke down left wing and beat Harvard's John Hynes between the pads at 18:03 to ice the game and send most of the remaining fans streaming for the exits...
Says Senior White House Assistant Hamilton Jordan: "When you work for Jimmy Carter, you don't have much time for reflection. You just plunge from one big thing to the next. Carter enjoys it. He takes a kind of perverse pleasure in all this activity...
Director Guy Hamilton, who has also done his share of Bonds, has a gift for moving this sort of nonsense right along, and the special effects, when everyone finally gets around to blowing up all the concrete in sight, are persuasive enough. There are occasional moments of violent excess (a decapitation, the sadism visited on Bach) that uncomfortably remind us of the harsh realities...