Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That went for the Israeli lobby in the U.S. as well. Begin telephoned Jewish leaders to give his account of the talks' collapse. Israel's Justice Minister Shmuel Tamir, who was on a U.S. tour, encouraged pro-Israel groups to launch a write-in and telegram campaign aimed at the White House and Congress. A group of 33 Jewish intellectuals, including Writers Saul Bellow and Irving Howe, who have criticized the Begin government's inflexibility in the past, sent Carter a letter saying that Washington's support of Cairo's position was "unacceptable...
...good place, she figures, to launch a re-election campaign...
...launch a hit, Coury will deploy his force of promo men (who make up almost half of the company's 68 employees) after giving them a Sunday-night pep talk on the phone that one trade-paper publisher compared to "listening to Vince Lombardi." As a breed, record promo men look like blow-dry Willy Lomans. Dressed in satin warmup jackets that hype the latest company acts, they hunker down for long sessions with program directors of radio stations all over the country, pushing the product, offering occasional sweeteners that can range from free T shirts to gram bottles...
...from Wisconsin; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A native of Oshkosh, Steiger served for six years as a state assemblyman before winning election to the U.S. Congress at age 28. A self-described moderate Republican, he co-sponsored the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, helped launch the volunteer Army, and this year proposed cutting the maximum capital gains tax from 49% to 25%. Despite opposition from President Carter, Steiger's colleagues eventually set the maximum tax rate...
...passage in his writings that foresaw, in glowing terms, a "Museum Without Walls," by which all works of art would be diffused through reproduction as the common property of mankind, as orchestral music is disseminated through recordings. "I am surprised," Rockefeller added plaintively, "that the art dealers would launch such an unfair attack on a good customer...