Word: messe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House pols debated just how they might tap this new good will for Ford's political purposes, or at least nurture it through November. Betty Ford, who had worried two years ago that the Bicentennial might be a mess, took her shoes off in her sitting room and declared she was amazed at the joy she encountered. She, too, let a little partisan fervor seep out, wondering in private if people did not understand that her husband had helped things along...
...GEICO get into such a mess? Founded in Texas in 1936, GEICO from the start sold policies directly to customers. By doing without agents it was able to set premiums as much as 25% below what competitors charged. Initially, too, it insured only federal, state and municipal government ernployees-a responsible, low-risk group. So it was one of the very few insurers that actually made a profit on underwriting (premium income matched against claims payments) as well as on investments...
...does not live by his tympanum alone, and the rest of the movie is, frankly, a mess. There was a decent impulse behind it, namely to make an hour by hour study of how the American and Japanese fleets groped their way toward the naval battle that effectively decommissioned the Japanese navy in World War II. For half an hour or so hope flares temptingly that a film first is in the making - a coherent explanation of how a complex military engagement was actually fought...
...past about undergraduate education. But administrative sources say Rosovsky is making a short-term versus long-term trade-off. He has bartered immediate controversy, never very strong concerning administrative appointments anyway, for the belief that Fox will ultimately make decisions and give hard answers to the housing mess...
Heymann gives us a profile of the poet/man, and in many ways it is deficient. It doesn't try to clean up the mess that has surrounded Pounds life, the almost inscrutable clusters of prose that make up Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era, the incomplete information in Charles Norman's biography, published in 1960, 12 years before Pound's death or Noel stock's The Life of Ezra Pound, completed two years before the poet died. But for all of its problems, Ezra Pound: The Last Rower provides us with one particularly important piece of information. That at least...