Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House. Within two working days. Press Secretary Jody Powell twice had to "clarify" Kahn's statements. First the inflation czar told a congressional committee that he did not favor Carter's plan to decontrol oil prices. Soon afterward presidential aides apparently changed Kahn's mind. Said Kahn: "I am now 100% behind the decision to decontrol. I always have been 49½% behind it." Then he told an AFL-CIO rally that failure of voluntary wage-price guidelines to slow inflation would lead to either mandatory controls or a recession. Powell had to make clear...
...watch football on TV, get drunk at a wedding, hunt deer and then go off to fight the war in 1972. It was the fifth Oscar for The Deer Hunter that night. The audience could only guess at the complexities of feeling that ricocheted around John Wayne's mind as he handed over the prize...
Meantime, events in Indochina and the labors of revisionist historians and other experts with second thoughts are bringing the American tragedy there into a new perspective. The war that was fought so much with symbols in the American mind has now acquired an entirely new set of symbols: the boat people fleeing and drowning, former South Vietnamese soldiers in re-education camps ringed with barbed wire, Pol Pot's murderous regime in Cambodia. When the French were colonizing Indochina in the middle of the 19th century, the Vietnamese were just in the process of conquering Cambodia. Now they have...
...your family is killed, you're not going to be shamed in the eyes of the rest of the community by not having your own attorney," says Charles Coy, a Richmond, Ky., lawyer who has been hired several times as a special prosecutor. The state prosecutors do not mind, since they are often hamstrung by a lack of resources. The commonwealth attorney for Perry County, where the Melton shooting took place a year and a half ago, has no investigators to interview witnesses or do any other legal legwork. The prosecutor must assent before a private lawyer can actually...
...That kind of thing should never happen, and I was a little upset about it for a while," Marshall said after the game. "But you've got to put those mistakes out of your mind, especially in this kind of a game where a lot of runs are scored. You know you'll get a chance at the plate later on," he added...