Word: maximation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maxim on Hall's office wall...
...tung (see story page 22). Reason: Mao, as the President puts it, united "800 million volatile and historically disparate and separated people." Except for the population figure, the phrase could equally apply to the Philippines. Marcos also admires another great historical figure. "What was Napoleon's maxim?" he asks rhetorically. " 'The art of power is not how to use your friends but how to use your enemies...
Calling for a year of "peace with honor," David L. "Maxim" Gorski, chief of University Police, accepts a promotion to Major. Two hundred officers with baby-blue jeeps and armored squad cars stage a full-dress Solidarity parade outside Mass Hall...
...Ironically a favorite maxim of George Shultz. once President Nixon's economic czar...
Playwright Steve Tesich, 33, has attempted to use one man, Maxim Gorky, as the mirror of a homeland, Russia, undergoing radical social change. But it is more complicated than that. First of all, there are three Gorkys simultaneously onstage, a romantic boy (John Gallogly), an idealistic young man (Douglas Clark) and an old and skeptical observer (Philip Baker Hall) who is still deeply moved by the plight of the Russian people...