Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Politburo probably want him to hang on as long as possible. Theirs is a truly collective leadership. All important decisions are made by consensus. That certainly includes any decision about which of them should be first among equals. While a retouched newspaper photograph here or a discordant note in a speech there may hint at squabbles and realignments, and while Brezhnev's possible heir, Andrei Kirilenko, may seem to be up one week and down the next, there is little doubt that whoever eventually succeeds Brezhnev will be a Brezhnevite, drawn from the ranks of the present inner circle...
...laude degree from the University of Minnesota plus an Oxford degree acquired as a Rhodes scholar. He put in five years as a newspaperman in Washington, then most of World War II in the U.S. Navy. A 1945 personnel memo details these and other qualifications, going on to note that "young Donovan is a handsome gentleman of 31, with blue eyes, a level gaze, a deep voice and a serious manner enlivened by a quick smile." None of that description needs to be changed today, except, inevitably and unbelievably, 31 has become...
...past decade has produced a single cultural bench mark of note, it has been the remarkable turnabout in Americans' estimation of their bricks-and-mortar legacy. In their new appreciation of the old, well-made, neglected structures in their midst, one New Yorker notes wryly, city dwellers resemble the estimable bourgeois gentilhomme of Moliere's play who discovers to his delight that he has unconsciously been speaking prose all his life...
...split, employers like it." Gibson adds, "work-study reduces the debts students have to pay because it's not a loan and it is an opportunity for the students to get real work experience. They can work in areas of their vocational interest." Both Gibson and Maguire note that students have not yet taken full advantage of work possibilities in the community, since they tend to work in the University, but both hope to expand community employment next year...
...million gubernatorial campaign. Son David got a $34,530 loan from the bank the following year. Lance's financial statements at the time were "false and misleading," the indictment says. Lance prepared another financial statement in January 1977, the month he became Budget Director, which also failed to note all of his liabilities, according to the indictment...