Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swooped in on Tuesday to attend a promotion session for a new public service ad campaign against drugs. Later she participated in a detailed planning session with Hartman and the G.M.A. staff. The questions Nancy would ask were neatly typed in capital letters on index cards, a prompting technique the President often uses. Meanwhile, the visit allowed Nancy's press secretary, Sheila Tate, to remind reporters that the First Lady would soon tape a promotional piece for the Public Broadcasting Service's upcoming program The Chemical People, which also deals with the drug problem and for which Nancy...
Between segments, Nancy methodically tears up the index card just used and studies the next one. Caydom darts out to subdue a rebellious curl or apply powder to a shiny spot on the forehead. "Oh," Nancy complains as the clock runs down, "I wish we had more time...
...book," and while this is apparently so, it is manifested in a particularly disappointing manner. Province sculpts his book from a mass of quotations linked by his own commentary, rarely stopping to place the reader in context. One can scarcely refer to Province's resources, as there is neither index nor footnotes. The reader is left with an often compelling version of the Patton story, as told by the author, without the chance to question his point of view...
...will sport a radically revamped layout and a new and bigger type face, and its number of daily pages will jump from 28 to 40. Page One will carry several stories, including a feature to be typeset with ragged right edges; the second page will become primarily an expanded index; the rest of the paper will be structured into distinct sections, each with its opening cover page. Says Fanning: "We are attempting to fit into the fast pace of life. People cannot pore through a paper these days...
...follow its own self-correcting laws-i.e., be ignored. That comfortable belief has been destroyed by three generations of dizzying swings from boom to shattering global depression to unexampled post-World War II prosperity to the "stagflation" of the 1970s. The monthly trends in the consumer price index and the unemployment rate may bring joy, gloom or, frequently, bewilderment, but they are anxiously surveyed nowadays by millions...