Word: paragraphing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have ever been in Cambridge on this particular October weekend, the opening paragraph should be self-explanatory...
...House Chief of Staff Donald Regan to suggest that he bring Shevardnadze to the Oval Office to deliver it in person. But not until Shevardnadze handed two copies of the letter, in Russian and English, to Reagan and briefly summarized its contents did it become clear that the last paragraph of the missive was one of the most extraordinary in the lengthening annals of White House-Kremlin correspondence. Reagan did not reply immediately; he devoted most of his 45-minute meeting with Shevardnadze to a stern lecture about how angry the U.S. was over Daniloff's arrest...
...punch lines came in the last paragraph. Gorbachev declared that he and Reagan should "personally involve" themselves in preparations for a full- scale summit meeting in order to give an "impulse" to their bureaucracies to draft something the two leaders could sign. To that end, he proposed a quick presummit meeting in either Britain or Iceland. Reagan, like Gorbachev a believer in personal diplomacy, was intrigued. But though Shultz, Poindexter and Regan all counseled acceptance, the President decided to sleep on it. By next morning Reagan had made up his mind. He instructed Shultz, who was to meet Shevardnadze later...
...rubber snakes, and whatnot -- and he punctuated his pitch Henny Youngman-style: "Talk about a cheap gag. This'll make you gag, Charlie." Then Bill Anderson came out to talk about using ventriloquism in church work. He had written a pamphlet of 111 different ways to use it, one paragraph devoted to each method, and he mentioned all 111. A sample: "Use your dummy for free advertising. Take your dummy to a clothing store to get a new suit, or a barber shop to get his hair cut, and call the newspaper and they'll send a photographer...
...districts, foundations, law-enforcement authorities and parent groups are shaping more thorough programs. The National Institute on Drug Abuse figures 72% of the nation's estimated 45.3 million elementary- and secondary-school students are being offered some kind of drug education, but sometimes it may amount to only a paragraph in a health textbook. The U.S. Department of Education's funding for drug education has been so tiny that no one has kept track of it. The department, however, is now considering a $100 million program...