Word: homework
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been that Frost got the nod because of his American reputation for skillfully playing the buffoon to celebrities and near-celebrities on talk show programs. But this was the Frost of the old BBC "That Was the Week That Was," and obviously he had done a lot of homework and he did his best to nail Nixon. But he didn't have to. Nixon nailed himself...
Carter's preparations have been extensive. Convinced that every problem can be made "manageable" with sufficient homework, he set aside ample time to get ready for the conference. Fresh from a two-month speed-reading course, he whizzed through a thick CIA report on the economic outlook for 24 non-Communist industrial nations; it predicts an average annual 4% economic-growth rate along with an 8% consumer-price rise in 1977. Carter also read specially prepared biographies of the leaders he is about to meet, plus summaries of the 1975 summit at Rambouillet, France, and the 1976 sequel...
...Hopes. Homework aside, Carter ran the risk of irritating his fellow heads of state when he granted interviews to a flock of European publications-all to be released just before he arrives in London. Earlier he had informed Prime Minister Callaghan that he would like to make an excursion to Poet Dylan Thomas' birthplace in Wales. The request was made without considering the fact that Britain is trying to moderate Welsh nationalist demands. Callaghan suggested a visit instead to the ancestral home of George Washington near the coal town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Prime Minister felt that taking...
Today's race will tell whether Higginson has done his homework...
...HOME OFFICE is apparently knocked out as a source of deductions for many teachers, salespeople, freelance writers, photographers and artists. No longer can, say, a teacher who grades tests and homework at home deduct part of his expenses for maintaining the dwelling. By and large, such deductions are now available only if the home office is a room that is used exclusively as an office-not just a desk or drafting table in the den-and is the taxpayer's "principal place of business." Loss to taxpayers: $207 million...