Word: misses
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Bush admits there are personality clashes on his staff. "I'm not saying she's Miss Popularity," he concedes. "Maybe I need to get more input from others." But he strongly denies Fitzgerald is a problem: "She's doing what I want done. When you have to say no, particularly to friends, there's bound to be some level of frustration...
...Secretary of State, Madrid was one stop on a week-long tour that took him to Portugal, Morocco and finally behind the Iron Curtain to Rumania. The Secretary did not miss the opportunity to underscore firmly the U.S. position on Poland as he arrived in Bucharest, though he took care to cloak his message in diplomatic language. Said Haig: "Recent events in Eastern Europe and elsewhere in the world have emphasized once again the problems facing many countries as they attempt to pursue their national destinies free from outside interference...
...excuse Horner's action because it avoided besmirching the name of fair Radclife is to miss the ethical boat entirely. Her lobbying is questionable precisely because it was an individual effort, compelled by no institutional imperatives. As The New Republic reported last week, the Riyadh telex was but one element in a massive Saudi lobbying effort for the AWACS sale--an effort targeted and American corporations anxious to secure lucrative contracts with the Saudis. The corporate leaders accompanying Horner clearly felt a need to advance their corporate interests; that does not make their lobbying excusable, but it does make...
Chris Connaire, executive director of the eight-year-old arts council, says Eddy's piece ranks among the city's most popular. "What gives Miss Eddy's work special strength is both its specificity to the location and community and the general historic note which it strikes." "She adds that all pieces commissioned by the council must meet similar standards of being "site-specific...
...facially favored apparently, is to spend hours before a mirror aping the book's clearly-labeled diagrams, which show an upper-class executive type holding his head up, and an average slouch, well, slouching. This modern Pygmalion proceeds to offer up a self-graded speech test that seems to miss some of the subtleties of poor speech--one is downgraded for pronouncing "boil" "berle" and "left" "weft...