Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was about to replace the Ford Administration's NSSMs (National Security Study Memoranda) with PSMs (Presidential Study Memoranda)-until he realized it might be awkward trying to pronounce that particular acronym. Brzezinski quickly rechristened the reports PRMs (Presidential Review Memoranda), and voila, a new acronym was born-pronounced prims-and certain soon to become among Washington's best-admired bureaucratic mots...
...Play the long-shots. A good way to lose since they are long-shots for a reason. Horses with casts or eye patches are my particular favorites...
...disowns: "Father of the B-1." Says Brown: "Yes, I started the so-called Advanced Manned Strategic Aircraft Program. But it's a long way from studies to hardware, and I won't take credit or blame for the full gestation and early childhood of that particular offspring...
...mechanical shop in his home in Wheaton, Md., where he repairs neighbors' lawnmowers as well as his own Oldsmobile and Chevy. But he is one labor leader who states proudly: "I don't mind being called a lefty. We're being centered to death." And in particular, he openly advises Meany, who is 82, to step down as AFL-CIO president when the federation convenes in Los Angeles in December. Says Winpisinger: "I have immense respect for George Meany, but there comes a time when every man passes the apex of his career...
...Says Everett C. Parker, TV watchdog for the United Church of Christ: "It's going to be the opening wedge for sexually explicit material in prime time." Adds Al Antczak of the Roman Catholic newspaper Tidings: ''The desecration of morality, and of the Catholic religion in particular, is an outrage that calls for protest in the strongest terms...