Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faught, a second-team All-Ivy and honorable mention All-American player last year when he collected 58 goals, ripped his high-velocity shots past Williams netminder Bill Child seven times in the second half--five in the fourth quarter--to raise his team-leading season goal total...
...chief of staff, Alexander Haig, first suggested to him the possibility of a pardon for Nixon a week before the President resigned. Further, Ford writes, "I did ask Haig about the extent of a President's pardon power." But after being warned by Aide John Marsh that the mention of a pardon in this context was "a time bomb," Ford later read Haig a statement: "I want you to understand that I have no intention of recommending what the President should do about resigning or not resigning and that nothing we talked about yesterday afternoon should be given...
Islam and Government. Muhammad's teachings are fundamentally democratic, since they proclaim the equality of all men before God. In practice, Islamic nations, like other countries, have both liberals and conservatives, democrats and dictators. The Islamic socialists of Iraq and Libya?not to mention Iranian moderates who want to see a parliamentary democracy established by their new constitution?look with disdain on a semifeudal monarchy like Saudi Arabia. Says Hussein Bani-Assadi, son-in-law of Iran's Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan: "Ideologically, this revolution cannot support systems like Saudi Arabia's. Islam has no kings." The Saudis answer that...
Strangely, when Paley pleads his own 3 inability as a television lord to make "fuller and better use of this magic form of a communications," he does not mention Ed Murrow. They were once close, Paley's one exception to his rule about not socializing with office colleagues. Twenty years ago, in a speech that offended Paley, Murrow proposed a plan similar in some respect to the plan Paley now offers. In a cold war period when Murrow thought the country "in mortal danger," the newsman proposed that each of the 20 or 30 largest corporate advertisers give...
...President Bok on Thursday night, Bok emphasized the decentralization of decision-making at Harvard, Universities, he said are "not hierarchical like armies. Power is shared widely by varying groups." He cited how budget priorities are set and tenured faculty selected as examples of this. The President, however, did not mention the unchecked power of the Harvard Corporation--which he heads--to invest Harvard's endowment. When it comes to investment policy, the Corporation does not share its power, it hoards it. Thomas Gould, a professor of classics at Yale, observed this same phenomenon in a different context...