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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freewheeling Georgia banker met the high ethical standards Carter has set for his top officials. The press began probing into Lance's shaky personal finances in May and discovered that he had borrowed heavily to acquire control of Atlanta's National Bank of Georgia and to maintain a lavish lifestyle. Those disclosures sparked several official investigations...
...emphasized-to Mr. Begin our national position is and has been that the settlements in the occupied territories were illegal. I also let him know that I thought the establishment of new settlements would be an obstacle to peace. And that is a position that we still maintain...
Motorists will also discover that smaller does not mean cheaper. Although price tags have risen an average 40% over the past five years, manufacturers maintain that their costs have been going up even faster. At GM, which is the industry's price leader, the average base price of a car rose about $270 this year to $5,400, meaning more than $6,000 with air conditioning, a radio and some other options. GM is expected to raise its sticker prices for the 1978s by perhaps as much...
...curtain dropped on her career, Adela Holzer. 43, played out her self-scripted role with aplomb. She even managed to maintain her poise after she was indicted last week in New York State Supreme Court on 137 counts of larceny and falsifying records. "I don't wear dark glasses when I went to be booked," she told TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin in her heavily accented English. "Everything will be done openly as 1 have led my life." With first-nighter enthusiasm, she gushed over the mug shots taken as she was booked, pronouncing them "the best. I have short...
...would have been easy for Cole to fall into the role of dilettante, composing patter songs to amuse his intimates. Instead, as Alec Wilder observes in his classic treatise, American Popular Song, "the body of [Porter's] work shows clearly that he constantly sought to maintain a high level, not of social frippery, but of professional craftsmanship." Cole worked as hard as he played. Each morning he would sit down at the piano for three hours. When he went on a cruise he took-along with his tailored dinner jackets and crates of his favorite champagne-a piano organ...