Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not expire until 1984. Burns replied in stratospheric fashion: "The good doctor is in the habit of thinking now and then, and he'll have to think this over carefully." His decision may well be no. He could make good money on the lecture circuit, in the manner of Henry Kissinger or Gerald Ford. He does not seem to regard Miller as a dangerous radical whose influence would have to be countered. And after having had the chairman's weight, Arthur Burns is not likely to settle for being just another governor Says Andrew Brimmer, a Reserve...
...something of a sybarite. He travels by private jet, owns a chateau in France and once, rumor has it, dispatched a ship to Italy to pick up a pair of porcelain vases. Moreover, his tendency to leave many major decisions to others, combined with a rather offhand manner when discussing business and money, can sometimes leave the impression that he is a self-indulgent hobbyist rather than a hardened executive...
...Flann O'Brien Reader aids and abets this judgment. Flannophile Stephen Jones has collected samples from four novels, a long Gaelic tale, stories, essays, teleplays and reams of humorous journalism. Jumbled together in this manner, the pieces gradually reveal a single mind behind the pseudonyms, one that was drunk with words and more than ready to defend fair language at the drop of a solecism...
Eckstein said that he is not interested in giving Carter a grade in the same manner as one of his Ec 10 students. He added that he felt "presidents should be judged by history, not on December 31; by results, not by style." It is too early to evaluate Carter because the president didn't anticipate the difficulties he has had with Congress, Wilson said...
...great American concern about weight goes back at least two decades, and over the years millions have plunged into diets and all manner of reducing schemes, from daily jogging to lengthy sojourns at high-priced fat farms. To what effect? Very little, says the National Center for Health Statistics, an offshoot of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. In fact, the center reports, men and women in most age and height groups actually weigh more than they did 15 years...