Word: leade
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Connally was indeed the most formidable personality in the Cabinet. Highly intelligent, superbly endowed physically, he looked and acted as if he were born to lead. He was not timid, nor did he lack courage. "You will be measured in this town," he said to me once, "by the enemies you destroy. The bigger they are, the bigger you will be." Connally relished combat. Whatever one might think of his views, he was a leader...
...launched bilateral ventures in arid land management, water control and the pooling of science and technology. Tijuana and San Diego are working on a joint program to control air pollution, which may become a model for other twin cities along the frontier. New pacts have been signed that should lead to greater cross-border cooperation in dealing with such crimes as narcotics smuggling and auto theft. And, as one State Department official puts it, the recent gas deal "could serve as a symbolic link that will permit fruitful negotiations in other areas to proceed more rapidly...
...Chrysler as a symptom. We are the classic microcosm of everything that is wrong with the U.S. You can list the problems. Energy? That's what cripples us. Inflation at 13%? Hold it, mine's higher than that because petrochemicals and lead are up more. Productivity? I'm glad you asked-we ain't got none. Sometimes when I wake up, I think of what I'm doing. Yeah, I'm trying to save a company but I never invent anything any more. I never create a job. Everything I do is to meet...
...your review of my Letters novel will not emphasize the role in it of my earlier novels, since that is the aspect of the novel I am most inclined to de-emphasize. My books are allowed to know one another, as children of the same father, but they must lead their lives in dependently. It is a rule in our house that one may recycle characters from one's earlier stories, but only if one does not presume even for a sentence that even one reader has even heard of those stories and characters, much less that anyone...
...Paris General Walters would lead me to an unmarked rented Citroën. Walters would drive us to his apartment building in the Neuilly section of Paris, where he smuggled us by elevator from the underground garage. As far as his housekeeper was concerned, I was a visiting American general named Harold A. Kirschman. We would proceed the next day to a house at 11 Rue Darthe in Choisy-le-Roi on the outskirts of Paris...