Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT IF a writer lured you into a tantalizing, suggestive paragraph, and abruptly ended...
TIME's Essay "Guarding the Door" [June 2] dealt well with the issue of a continued welcome to immigrants until the last paragraph. There Lance Morrow suggested that the rational lines must be drawn as to whom we can accept...
Just a little while back, when Jimmy Carter began to prepare his latest assault on inflation, his advisers predicted that restraining consumer credit card privileges might have some symbolic value but little practical impact on the problem. Carter wondered a bit about the advice but put a paragraph about credit cards in his speech. The response from the public was beyond anything predicted. Some people mailed their cards to the White House, others ground them up, and a lot of folks began buying with cash. Carter's gut had been right...
...Reagan's strengths as Governor was his ability to assemble a staff of experienced advisers and department heads and to delegate considerable authority to them. He embraced an aide's scheme of "mini-memos," four-paragraph briefs setting out l) the nature of a problem, 2) the basic facts involved, 3) terse arguments for and against various options, and 4) the staff recommendation on what to do. At the bottom were boxes for Reagan to check yes or no. While critics claimed that this showed Reagan's inability or unwillingness to grapple with complex issues, the procedure...
...only paragraph that was finally deleted from the resolution, at U.S. insistence, was one demanding that Israel "respect and guarantee religious freedoms and practices in Jerusalem and other holy places in the occupied Arab territories as well as the integrity of places of religious worship." In fact, Israel's observance of these guarantees has been so scrupulous as to defy criticism by truly neutral observers...