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During the conference, Carter hopes to show that he is both practical and flexible, and that his statecraft must be taken seriously. Says a top presidential adviser: "The President is acutely conscious that there are plenty of uncertainties and even worries about him in Europe. I think he will impress them as a pragmatist, not a moralist, and as a guy who's got a firm grip on the problems." Fuel Sales. Carter arrives bolstered by firm public support at home. A New York Times/CBS News survey last week showed that he had a 64% favorable rating after announcing...
...obviously frustrated, and wanted to impress his friend," Crazy added, "but when he asked how someone had time to eat crab during a race, she laughed in his face and walked away. Then Lee started chewing on the pavement, and I knew he too was suffering from the disease...
Mary, Queen of Scots was a woman's lib advocate moved not by her age, but by an internal drive to reverse the deep-seated prejudices against her sex. She wrote letters to her sister trying to impress upon her the need to be well-versed in women's literature, and well aware of the sundry contributions they've made outside the literary arts. The queen went so far as to recommend the memorization of lists of women writers, so that when called upon to defend the gender, every woman would have verbal ammunition at the tongue...
...responsibility as an architect is to urge corporations to break from the practice of caring only for the "big fellow" at the top. The struggle is ultimately with those who make the final decisions, for, as Pollock intimated, the president of E.F. Hutton wants to make money and impress clients, and seldom takes the employee's interests to heart. "The people who pay the bills march to a different drumbeat; they are not interested in the human scale," he says...
...marry Fords and Vanderbilts and even a Greek shipping magnate whose name old Tom Murray would never have been able to pronounce, and drifting away from that distinctive brand of Irish Catholicism the good sisters of the Academy of Somebody's Sacred Heart had worked so hard to impress upon them. In the end, the family could claim its place in American society only by surrendering the little society it had tried to create for itself, by trading in the lace curtains and rosaries for the jet planes and yachts of a faster-moving, less romanticized America...