Word: meres
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From your article on Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell [June 6]. President Carter's staff appears to be populated by mere "good ole boys." But Carter did not get to be President by hiring political ignoramuses. Jordan and Powell obviously have plenty of savvy-they may break the rules by failing to be stuffed shirts, but they did not break the cardinal rule by letting their man lose...
...planets it may have spawned. Such a process can sometimes take millions of years. But scientists will not have to wait that long to see how MWC 349's birth turns out. At the rate at which the disc is disappearing, it will be gone in a mere 100 years...
...Irish color the overseas invasion with a touch of wit. Asahi, the $1.8 billion Japanese chemical concern, planted a $100 million textile factory in the barren wilds of Mayo, a western county haunted by memories of famine and emigration. Its peasantry have always been so poor that after the mere mention of "Mayo" they intoned the prayer "God help us." Now that Asahi is there, a local poet, with an eye toward more potential investors, wants it changed to "Mitsubishi help...
Platinum Spinner. One hit LP has made Peter Frampton, 26, a multimillionaire in a mere 18 months. Frampton Comes Alive! has sold 11 million copies, earning the transplanted British rock star $6.4 million; in addition, he grossed $3.5 million in S.R.O. concerts across the U.S. last year. It took the wispy (5 ft. 7 in., 120 lbs.) guitarist ten hard years of experimentation and road tours before he hit platinum. Says he: "I would never have believed 18 months ago that I'd be driving around in limos, own a Rolls and live this...
...will, along with those of unaffiliated amateurs rediscovering an eminent Victorian fantasy. As the wasp clearly demonstrates, the Alice books, like Finnegans Wake, are novels in the form of dreams, granting wit to animals and game pieces, annihilating space and natural law. The Rev. Charles Dodgson considered these volumes mere entertainments. Most of the author's adult life was spent as an Oxford don, pursuing the arcana of mathematics and logic...