Word: homework
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Israel's Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, a friend and former student (see box page 28), describes the triumph another way. "He does his homework," says Allon, who also admires Kissinger's "mastery of detail, quick mind and acute sense of timing." The success of the Secretary's "chain reaction" diplomacy is that Kissinger "manages to make you feel that he is listening to you with great understanding, and yet he is never soft...
...done its homework well in its effort to keep KP&L from getting the land needed for the plant by eminent domain. The group has prepared a 51-page briefing for the Pottawatomie County District Court which must decide soon whether to issue an injunction preventing KP&L from taking the farmers' land...
...have only half a brain." The long climb began in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1937 when Sendak was nine. He and his older brother Jack wrote and illustrated books that they hand-lettered, decorated and bound with tape. By the time he was in high school, he was illustrating homework instead of doing it. Afternoons and weekends were spent working for All American Comics, where he adapted Mutt and Jeff strips for comic books...
Jackson is not only determined, he is also effective-a fact that is recognized by allies and opponents alike. He does his homework; he is earnest and honest. He is nothing if not himself: plainspoken, no shaggy locks, rimless glasses or any other concession to youth or fashion. He operates from an almost impregnable position in the Senate, where he is chairman of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee and a member of the Armed Services Committee, the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, and the Government Operations Committee...
...there were none), leaders say they want to avoid the Americans' mistakes. John Holbertton of Melbourne's Jesus Light and Power House thinks that many in the U.S. "didn't realize that there is no instant spiritual fix. Instead, there's a lot of homework to be done...