Word: miltonic
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...style of the Netanyahu government has American undertones, so does its substance. Israel's CEA will be headed by Jacob Frenkel, governor of the Bank of Israel. A disciple of free marketeer Milton Friedman, Frenkel is a graduate of the University of Chicago, and taught economics there. His job is to help Netanyahu deliver Friedmanesque reforms to the still largely socialized Israeli economy: slashing spending, cutting taxes and breaking up monopolies. Netanyahu's Director of Policy Planning and Communications is David Bar-Illan, the outgoing executive editor of the Jerusalem Post. Bar-Illan, a dual U.S.-Israeli national, spent nearly...
...book offers candid assessments of the show's less stellar moments as well. Koppel, we learn, never liked the idea of doing a show on comedian John Belushi's death--especially when the only show-biz "friend" of his the show managed to book was Milton Berle. Koppel's choice for the all-time worst Nightline is a 1985 interview with Le Duc Tho, in which the former North Vietnamese negotiator rattled on interminably (as fellow guest Henry Kissinger fumed) because his interpreter refused to convey Koppel's desperate efforts to stop him. A rare guest who Koppel says...
...speakers were among the most prestigious speakers in the world," says Collins, now a lawyer in Milton, Mass. "At that time in my life, I just expected...
Citing low earnings and increased shoplifting, then-Coop President Milton P. Brown '40 announced the store would slash its rebate by more than 50 percent...
...said his title quote "'If answerable style I can obtain'" was taken from the book and served as a comparison between his own creative attempt and Milton...