Word: knowing
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Talmadge has conceded some irregularities; indeed, he has offered to repay the Senate $37,000 in expense money that he grants was improperly drawn. But he blames the improprieties on confusion and sloppy bookkeeping by his office staff. He insists that he did not even know until last summer that the Riggs bank account existed...
...Anglo-U.S. relations. You don't change warm relationships between countries just because you've changed governments. I'm sure President Carter said the same when he was running for office-after all, he was the challenger. We know that Europe and the Free World cannot be properly defended unless America stays in Europe. The ties of history, the ties of the English-speaking peoples are really very great indeed. They should outlast Presidents and Prime Ministers...
...economy. Joseph has been accused of insensitivity toward the poor-he once claimed that what Britain needed was "more millionaires and more bankrupts"-and even some Tories characterize him as a "mad monk." Sir Keith readily admits the failings that have made him a bogeyman to the left. "I know I have a first-class mind," he once said, "but I have no political judgment whatsoever." Thus, despite his powerful influence on Thatcher, he was given the relatively minor Cabinet post of Minister for Industry...
...Mile Island nuclear power plant crisis. While the event made plain that Government and corporate experts had not quite leveled with the public about the hazards of nuclear power, it also proved, frighteningly enough, that the experts sometimes did not tell the whole story simply because they did not know it. Joseph M. Hendrie, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said of himself and other officials, as they tried to cope with an incipient meltdown: "We are operating . . . like a couple of blind men staggering around making decisions...
Harvard wants very much to avenge last week's loss. Brown said that Yale rubbed in its win, angering some of the Crimson. "They are not used to winning so they don't know how to do it graciously," Brown said. "It's going to be a grudge match...