Word: mille
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...class was also a welcome contrast to the regular diversions of newspapers, pinochle and the bar car. "I'd normally be standing in the gin mill four cars forward," said John Bunbury of Monsanto. "The socializing and the standing keep you awake so that you don't miss your stop." As the conductor announced Huntington, no one seemed to have minded skipping his drink. The train was on time-something of a rarity in itself-but delays along the line would not necessarily be bad. They would simply allow more time for learning the Principles of Marketing...
Lesson for Wilbur. The trouble is, textile imports in any amount constitute an extremely emotional issue in mill towns around the country, and Nixon seems determined to deliver on campaign promises to textile executives-mostly from the South-who contributed some $6 million to his 1968 race. He is also irritated with Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, who, in Nixon's view, has reneged on a 1969 promise to curb textile exports voluntarily. (Sato says he was misunderstood because of an error in translation.) The President also has been eager to teach House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills...
...mind to behave can behave. This sort of preaching from the bench seems to be a disease readily acquired by judges and others who sit in judgment. It has done no good--it probably can do no good...it sets the stage for the same old tread-mill. This impression is bolstered by the use of threats, actual and implied, all relating to the time to be served...There are also promises extracted...
Instead, he is out to restore humanity to a country that has too long been grist for everyone's political mill. Part of the crime of Vietnam has been a failure of visualization. It has been too easy to develop a seven o'clock news mentality that agonizes only thirty minutes a day. So Coutard particularizes circumstances and thus humanizes them. Hung is a kind of Vietnamese Huck Finn, and the acting of young Phi Lan in that role is completely sympathetic...
Capelli deserves an answer and a commitment, for if change comes to America, it will come not only for impoverished blacks and alienated students. It will also come for Polish steel-workers like Mike Dombrowski, people who face a shit-shoveling steel mill life, without hope for a tomorrow different from today. We can't just help the oppressed of our choosing...