Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Granted the dizzying diversity of looks in the gallery of past Chief Executives, how is anyone to know what an ideal President should look like? The odd truth is that Americans do know. But how? What picture of a President resides in the popular imagination? What, in short, is the operating archetype...
...fiscal conservatism makes no political sense. Carter is under fire from the urban groups--labor, blacks, and old-fashioned liberals--within his party. Brown has no room to maneuver on Carter's right without becoming a Republican. His inaugural address as Governor, in which he joined some 20-odd state legislatures in calling for a constitutional amendment for a balanced budget, greatly displeased the leadership of the AFL-CIO. He hurried to mollify them, unsuccessfully, at their gathering in Miami. If Brown has visions of wooing the Jarvis vote, he should consider who is more likely to foot the bill...
...most complaints, however, came from librarians, geographers and other academics who specialize in the Middle Kingdom. Libraries seemed to be hardest hit by the switch to Pinyin (Chinese for "phonetic spelling"), with its odd-looking q's, x's and zh's, as they contemplated making millions of changes in card catalogues. The Harvard-Yenching Library, for example, has more than half a million cards in its catalogue, all recorded in Wade-Giles. "We cannot possibly cope with such a change now," says Librarian Wu. Similarly discouraged was the head archivist of the oriental manuscripts section...
...only were there earthquakes, but the usually sun-washed Kona coast was lashed by heavy rains that set back filming and added another $2 million to the $20 million budgeted. Bisset and Newman, during one interruption in the shooting, were caught by photographers making comparisons that were more odd than odious...
...seem odd, ironic and even unbelievable to anybody paying those pumped-up OPEC oil prices, but the Saudis feel they are the suckers of th world In their own sardonic way, they even joke about it. They say that they have piped out their black gold but the paper money they have accumulated in return for it has suffered from the decline of the dollar. They are worried about the shakiness of the international monetary system and of some Western banks in which they have put their money...