Word: intendancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President concluded that he had to signal the Soviets that the U.S. did not intend to stand by idly in this crisis. There was an element of compensation in this; two weeks before, the U.S. had appeared helpless and indecisive when Egypt and Russia callously violated the Suez standstill agreement. A second display of weakness might be highly damaging. He kept a date with editors of the Chicago Sun-Times and Daily News?and deliberately took an overly tough line. Nixon hinted that the U.S. might use the holding of the airline hostages as a handy excuse to attack...
...quote Gould's friend Bob Kaufman on Gould's changeable attitude (or gradual disenchantment) toward directors, ending with a disparaging comment about Mervyn Le Roy. I am sure Kaufman did not intend to be unkind or unfair, but it is hard to accept such disparagement of a man whose credits include I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Random Harvest, Waterloo Bridge and the production of Wizard of Oz-and whose finest credit is that he is one of the gentlest, most civilized human beings around...
Your career plans will shift considerably in subsequent months. Right now, about a third of you intend to concentrate in Natural Sciences. By June, one of every three potential Natural Scientists will switch to Humanities or Social Sciences...
...country?" This was really one of the most interesting things to me about my contact with them. With the little amount of research they are able to do, they really can't afford to conduct it in areas which don't have a practical application. Certainly they don't intend to compete with the American or other developed countries in doing basic research...
...hopes?that "the longer lengths have manners, more style. Perhaps it has something to do with moral awareness." A protest signed by 335 customers of the Sanger-Harris store in Dallas reads: "We object strongly to being suppressed into buying the midi exclusively. We like looking feminine and intend staying that way, even if it means shopping elsewhere...