Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just how close are Burns and Carter? Liberals fear that they might be turning into the political Odd Couple of all time-Carter the grinning lifelong Democrat; Burns the somber, smoke-wreathed Republican. Burns, after all, was Dwight Eisenhower's chief economic adviser, Richard Nixon's Counsellor and, though theoretically removed from politics when he was named Federal Reserve chairman in 1970, a close confidant of Gerald Ford's. During the campaign, Candidate Carter rapped Burns' Federal Reserve for its conservative monetary policies. He also made much of a proposal to make the term...
...almost a father image to the country. "I did not want Begin as Premier," said Yehudit Chen, 19, a female soldier. "I wanted Peres. I never thought that this would be the outcome of my vote." Avraham Aharanson, head of a Tel Aviv private investigating company and a lifelong Labor supporter, confessed that "I haven't been able to work for three days. I feel this is a very dangerous development. I am too shocked to understand...
Kaplan, 50, a square-built, methodical man with a crew cut, left Czechoslovakia last September after a checkered career in his country's politics. A lifelong Communist, he was appointed to head the party's Culture and Propaganda Committee in Bohemia only a year after the 1948 Communist coup d'état toppled Prague's last democratic government. Although he served as an agitprop official throughout the Stalinist terror, he later became an active supporter within the party of its leading liberal, Alexander Dubček. It was during Dubček's brief tenure...
...other people at NORML," State Rep. Michael F. Flaherty said. As the House chairman of the Judiciary Committee, where successive "decrim" bills have met defeat for the last five years running, Flaherty has been targeted for intensive lobbying by Oteri's office. The fact that Flaherty and Oteri are lifelong friends dating back from their childhoods in Southie has partially influenced Oteri's decision to focus on Flaherty...
...signed a five-year contract to advertise cosmetics put out by Alexandra de Markoff, a division of Lanvin. The company reckoned that her name and chiseled cheekbones fit the de Markoff image. Victoria, who has caught on i quickly to the ways of the consumer society, claims a lifelong interest in cosmetics. "As a child, I would make up my dolls, but they always came out looking terrible." Will her personality come across, as she hopes, in the new de Markoff campaign? "I don't want people to say, 'Well, she's pretty...