Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beame is naturally reluctant to drive the unions into a corner that will force still more labor turmoil. Strikes next month would be a particular embarrassment because the Democratic National Convention takes place in Manhattan during the week of July 12. There are also purely local political considerations. Though he has been regarded as a lame duck, Beame has regained his confidence and is now considering running for a second term next year. To do so he will need labor support...
...view of the party, that is still true. We haven't become more impatient. It's the events-unfortunate events-that are pushing ahead faster. I say unfortunate because we are not enthusiastic about entering the government at the present time, not only because we have no particular personal ambitions, but because it would mean going into the government in a very difficult moment for Italy, with a heavy inheritance from past governments. But there is no doubt that the situation requires a change in leadership...
...instructors frequently note that one combat officer must always be able to rely on the word of another. To illustrate this point, the cadets are often told a story-perhaps apocryphal-of a company commander who radioed one of his platoon leaders to move his unit out of a particular area. The platoon leader, deciding that his men were too tired to stir, later radioed back that the maneuver had been completed-but he actually let his troops stay in place. Relying on this false statement, the company commander ordered an artillery unit to open fire on the area...
...town, and a plague of earthworms, this last called Squirm. Most of these items hold little promise, but perhaps some small consolation may be found in the fact that the folks who made Grizzly have already produced what will probably stand as the bottom of the cage in this particular film genre...
...directed some new sequences to introduce the film clips, pleasant interludes sung and danced by the director and Fred Astaire, appearing together for the first time in a movie since they did The Babbit and the Bromide in Ziegfeld Follies (1946). Astaire is 77 but retains his very particular charm. He is part boulevardier, part made-in-U.S.A. naïf. Kelly, 63 and still able to dance in and out of rain puddles better than anyone else ony earth, stages these hoof-and-croon sessions with roughhouse smoothness. Among the assorted clips are mini-homages to Frank Sinatra...