Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after about 50 pages, LeBoutillier forgets about Harvard, and the book's title--a misnomer to start with--drops from sight. What we get instead, is John LeBoutillier's philosophy on government, as derived from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Harvard history courses at their most simplistic level, and his senior thesis--which had something to do with the origins of the Republican Party...
Instead of stopping all foreign purchases of oil as of 1977, it would be better if the President had taken this to be the maximum current use level and allowed for whatever additional purchases could be immediately stockpiled by the Government. At the same time, storage facilities should be made available in every state, able to hold at least two years' supply, to be filled up as quickly as possible. These modifications are needed as a protection against sudden and radical reductions in available oil, due to war or other emergencies...
...wasn't there at the Camp David hair-down sessions, let alone when the Cabinet-level jobs were handed out, was America's premier banker, Walter Wriston. His absence was unsurprising if unfortunate because, along with being the most innovative of moneymen, the Citicorp chairman delivers outspoken opinions with a rapier tongue that belies his early career as a State Department diplomat. In a glass house 15 stories above Park Avenue, he sits at a circular desk (the better to gather aides around to chew over ideas) and, eyebrows arched and wisecracks flying, tosses out some sharp-edged...
...effects of the nation's worst commercial reactor accident. Last week, in a report that is sure to have wide repercussions, NRC staff investigators said that the most serious aspects of the mishap were almost certainly due to human error. And though they acknowledged that the radiation level was low, they said that one burst was greater than any previously revealed...
...fooling people. That's what acting really is, anyway." Once kids think of moviemaking as a game, he says, "they will do all kinds of things to fool you." He took a somewhat different approach with the two young stars of A Little Romance, "since on a romantic level it's an adult movie." The initial problem seemed to be that Thelonious Bernard was very shy with Diane Lane. "It was mostly the language thing," says Hill (Thelo at first spoke almost no English, though he learned fast). To solve the chemistry problem, he says, "I made them hold hands...