Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House aides, Jordan and Powell fall somewhere between policymakers and breakers like Clark Clifford and Ted Sorensen, and mere doorkeepers like Kenneth O'Donnell and Marvin Watson. Even in this semi-exalted position, however, hubris remains a problem for the pair: they have gained so much power so soon. It could turn the heads of people twice their age. Another problem is that in the process of growing up politically at the White House, Jordan and Powell are bound to make mistakes-and at a high level...
...world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist. Such assistance, I am convinced, must not be on a piecemeal basis ... Any assistance that this government may render in the future should provide a cure rather than a mere palliative...
...begun in 1965 by New York Airways Inc., which launched flights to New York airports from the top of the 59-story Pan American Building in midtown Manhattan. For $25, a passenger could board a 30-person Sikorsky S-61 chopper and get to, say, Kennedy International in a mere ten minutes (v. about $16 and 45 minutes by taxicab...
...waters further by promising Nantucketers that he would give them "two or three representatives and maybe a senator" in Concord's legislature; he also pointed out that as undertaxed New Hampshirites, they would be able to buy the same bottle of Scotch that now costs $8.80 for a mere $5. Still, secession is a virtually impossible solution, since both the Massachusetts legislature and the U.S. Congress would have to approve...
...home of Peripherique, a six-pound black howler monkey and rogue male, whose treetop wanderings inspired local farmers to name him after the high-speed roadway that encircles Paris. Like all howl er monkeys, black or red, Peripherique has an amazingly overdeveloped set of vocal chords: his mere coo, echoing across the valley like the roar of a hungry lion, has startled many an unwary tourist. Rather more astonishing is the fact that he roams the Dordogne at all. Peripherique's proper habitat is the rain forests of the Amazon River valley half a world away...