Word: musts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Burgeoning factionalism has a healthy side: it draws fresh people into public activity. Yet no matter how well it satisfies particular narrow causes, sooner or later it must damage larger public values. Eventually, as Political Scientist Norman Ornstein of Washington's Catholic University puts it, "You have too many decision makers and too many groups trying to exercise a veto over decisions, and with that you reach a paralysis in government." In the extreme, there could be worse things than paralyzed government. There could come a breaking of that basic spirit of accommodation and mutual respect that...
...sweet dull-minded girl broken by her first love affair, it is impossible to believe that in real life she is not at least slightly bovine. Violette (for which she won the Best Actress award at this year's Cannes Festival) leaves the viewer convinced, contrarily, that she must be willful, neurotic and blown about by stormy emotions. Neither turns out to be the case. Her face is lively and full of intelligence, and it shows none of the opacity that she assumed for these two roles. At 23, she is a small fair-skinned redhead, wearing, for lunch...
...bank to sell, say, $1 million for German marks on a particular day, in Europe it is up to the bank's trader whether to let them all go at once or sell $500,000 in the morning, the rest in the afternoon. In New York, a trader must execute the order at a time and price that the client specifies - and if he accepts an order and then cannot fill it at the price he has quoted, his bank takes the loss...
Coke and Taylor immediately ran into trouble with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF), which must pass on all wine ads and frowns on most comparative advertising (advertis ing of beer and wine, but not liquor, is permitted on TV). BATF did not bar Taylor's promotions, but said that the winery ran them at its own risk. If the ads were found to be misleading, Taylor could face penalties ranging from a letter of admonishment to a suspension of its permit to sell wine interstate. Early this month, Coca-Cola officials decided to risk the consequences...
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's assistant for National Security Affairs, after arriving late at a party: "I had to practice my belly dancing. One must be prepared in the age of the ERA. You never know when you might be called on to perform...